Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s
The Game
Scored from 670 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Nicholas Van Orton, a wealthy and emotionally detached San Francisco investment banker, receives an unusual birthday gift from his younger brother: an invitation to participate in a mysterious live-action game run by a company called Consumer Recreation Services. As the game begins to invade every corner of his carefully controlled life, Nicholas can no longer tell where reality ends and the game begins.
The Game (1997) is a film IMDb files under the drama, mystery and thriller genres.
The calibrated figure is built from 670 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 689 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 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 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 670.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
