Film · 1992 · Films · 1990s
The Crying Game
Scored from 154 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
An IRA volunteer becomes unexpectedly close to a captured British soldier, then travels to London to seek out the soldier's lover, Dil, with whom he forms a complicated bond. As his past catches up with him, he must navigate love, loyalty, and identity in ways he never anticipated.
The Crying Game (1992) is a film IMDb files under the crime, drama and romance genres.
4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 154 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 155 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Crying Game 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 154.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
