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The Entertainer
Scored from 40 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Archie Rice is a third-rate music-hall comic working an English seaside resort in 1956, playing to thinning houses as the variety circuit dies around him. Laurence Olivier plays him as a man of relentless patter and no talent, dodging the tax inspector, drinking through his marriage to Phoebe, and courting a young beauty-contest entrant whose parents might finance one last show. His retired father Billy, a genuine star of the old halls, and his daughter Jean, drawn into the anti-Suez protests, watch the household strain while his son Mick serves with the army in Egypt. Tony Richardson's British New Wave adaptation of John Osborne's stage play.
The Entertainer is a 1960 drama film. It was made in the United Kingdom. The runtime is 96 minutes.
1,928 other films from the 1960s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 40 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 40 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 Entertainer 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 · 1960s (1,929 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 40.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
