Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Scored from 275 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Samantha Caine, a suburban schoolteacher with amnesia, has built a quiet life with her daughter after washing ashore eight years earlier with no memory of her past. When a car accident jars loose fragments of her former identity, she teams up with a low-rent private investigator to uncover who she really was, only to find that dangerous people from that hidden life are hunting her down.
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) is a film IMDb files under the action, crime and drama genres.
4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 275 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 281 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 Long Kiss Goodnight 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 275.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
