Film · 1978 · Films · 1970s
The Lord of the Rings
Scored from 229 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
Ralph Bakshi's animated adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic follows the hobbit Frodo Baggins, who inherits a powerful ring that must be destroyed to stop the dark lord Sauron. Joined by a fellowship including the wizard Gandalf, the ranger Aragorn, and his loyal friend Sam, Frodo sets out from the Shire on a perilous journey across Middle-earth. The film covers roughly the first half of the trilogy, ending after the battle of Helm's Deep.
Released in 1978, The Lord of the Rings is an adventure, animation and fantasy film.
The calibrated figure is built from 229 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 237 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s 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 Lord of the Rings 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 · 1970s (2,406 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 229.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
