Film · 1965 · Films · 1960s
The Great Race
Scored from 142 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
In the early 1900s, the dashing hero the Great Leslie proposes a New York-to-Paris automobile race to showcase a new car. His rival, the villainous Professor Fate, schemes to sabotage him at every turn, while a determined suffragette reporter joins the race to prove women belong behind the wheel. The contestants careen across the American West, a melting ice floe, and a Ruritanian kingdom in a sprawling slapstick adventure.
The Great Race is a 1965 action, adventure and comedy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 142 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 151 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 Great Race 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 142.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
