Film · 1971 · Films · 1970s
The Devils
Scored from 124 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
In 17th-century France, Urbain Grandier, a worldly Catholic priest in the fortified town of Loudun, makes powerful political enemies as Cardinal Richelieu seeks to consolidate royal authority. When a sexually repressed, hunchbacked prioress develops obsessive fantasies about him, accusations of demonic possession sweep through her convent, and Grandier is put on trial as a sorcerer in a spectacle exploited for political ends.
Released in 1971, The Devils is a biography, drama and history film.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 292 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 124 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 127 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them.
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 Devils 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 · 1970s (2,406 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 124.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
