Film · 1967 · Films · 1960s
The Graduate
Scored from 658 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock returns home adrift about his future and is seduced into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner. Things grow complicated when Benjamin falls for her daughter Elaine, forcing him to confront the older generation's expectations and fight for a life of his own choosing.
The Graduate (1967) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and romance genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 658 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 680 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 Graduate 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 658.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
