Film · 1969 · Films · 1960s
The Italian Job
Scored from 194 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
A British crook fresh out of prison assembles a crew to pull off a daring gold bullion heist in Turin, Italy, using a fleet of Mini Coopers to escape through the city's traffic-jammed streets and sewers. The job hinges on hacking the city's traffic control system to create gridlock, but the getaway proves trickier than the heist itself.
The Italian Job is a 1969 action, comedy and crime film. Its comedy subtype is Action Comedy.
194 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 198 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.
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 Italian Job 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 194.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
