Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
The Color of Paradise
Scored from 54 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Majid Majidi's Iranian drama opens at a Tehran school for blind children at the end of term, where eight-year-old Mohammad waits to be collected. His widowed father Hashem, a laborer courting a woman back in their village in the forested north of the country, arrives late and reluctantly, and first tries to leave the boy behind. At home Mohammad is welcomed by his grandmother and two sisters and reads the world through his fingertips — in birds, wheat, river stones and the letters he traces on them — while his father, afraid the boy will cost him the marriage, arranges to apprentice him to a blind carpenter away in the mountains.
The Color of Paradise (1999) is a film IMDb files under the drama and family genres. It is rated PG. The runtime is 90 minutes. Its listed language is Persian. It was made in Iran.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. Only 54 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 62 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Color of Paradise lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1990s (4,082 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 54.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
