Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s
The Last Days
Scored from 30 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
James Moll's Academy Award-winning documentary, produced by Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, follows five Hungarian Jews through the last phase of the Holocaust. In 1944, with the war already lost, the Nazi regime and Hungarian authorities deported hundreds of thousands of Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau within a few months. Congressman Tom Lantos, Renée Firestone, Alice Lok Cahana, Bill Basch and Irene Zisblatt describe their families, the ghettos and the camps, and return to the towns they were taken from. Their testimony is set beside archival film, American liberators and an interview with a former Auschwitz SS physician.
Released in 1998, The Last Days is a documentary and war film. It is rated PG-13. The runtime is 57 minutes. It was made in the United States.
Only 30 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 31 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Days 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 30.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
