Film · 1991 · Films · 1990s
The Last Boy Scout
Scored from 197 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
A burned-out, cynical Los Angeles private detective and a disgraced former pro quarterback are reluctantly thrown together after the quarterback's girlfriend, a stripper the detective was hired to protect, is murdered. Their investigation uncovers a violent conspiracy involving a ruthless pro football team owner, a corrupt senator, and a scheme to legalize sports gambling.
Released in 1991, The Last Boy Scout is an action, comedy and crime film.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 197 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 199 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 Last Boy Scout 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 · 1990s (4,082 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 197.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
