Film · 1966 · Films · 1960s
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Scored from 999 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
During the American Civil War in the New Mexico territory, three men chase the same $200,000 in stolen Confederate gold. Blondie (Clint Eastwood), a laconic gunman, and Tuco Ramírez (Eli Wallach), the voluble bandit he keeps turning in for the bounty and shooting down from the gallows, each end up holding half a secret: Tuco knows the name of the cemetery where the money is buried, Blondie the name on the grave. That forces two enemies into a partnership across prison camps, artillery duels and a contested river bridge, while Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef), a mercenary killer working the same lead, closes in. Sergio Leone's Italian Western completes his Dollars trilogy, scored by Ennio Morricone.
Released in 1966, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is an adventure, drama and western film. Its country of origin is listed as Italy. It runs 2h 58m and carries an R certificate. Its listed language is Italian.
999 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 1,113 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 10,233 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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, the Bad and the Ugly 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 999.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
