Film · 1982 · Films · 1980s
The Grey Fox
Scored from 27 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
The Grey Fox is a Canadian Western built on the life of Bill Miner, the courteous American stagecoach robber played by Richard Farnsworth, who walks out of San Quentin in 1901 after thirty-three years inside. The world he re-enters has no stagecoaches left, and after a spell of honest labour he watches The Great Train Robbery at a nickelodeon and decides trains will do instead. Moving north into British Columbia under an assumed name, he takes on a young partner and falls in with Kate Flynn, a suffragist photographer in the mining country who guesses what he is. Pinkerton men and the railway close in as he works the Canadian Pacific line, in Phillip Borsos's first feature.
The Grey Fox (1982) is a film IMDb files under the biography, drama and history genres. It was made in Canada. It runs 1h 31m and carries a PG certificate.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 18 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. Only 27 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 27 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
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 Grey Fox 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 · 1980s (3,141 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 27.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
