Film · 1993 · Films · 1990s
The Good Son
Scored from 134 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
After his mother's death, young Mark is sent to stay with his aunt and uncle's family, where he befriends his same-aged cousin Henry. Mark soon discovers that Henry harbors a disturbing dark side, engaging in increasingly dangerous and malicious behavior that puts the family in jeopardy. As Mark tries to warn the adults, he struggles to be believed against the seemingly perfect Henry.
The Good Son (1993) is a film IMDb files under the drama and thriller genres.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 134 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 141 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 Good Son 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 134.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
