Film · 1962 · Films · 1960s
The Manchurian Candidate
Scored from 300 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
During the Korean War, an American patrol is captured and taken into Manchuria, where Communist handlers put the men through intensive brainwashing. Back home, Sergeant Raymond Shaw is given the Medal of Honor and paraded by his domineering mother and her red-baiting husband, Senator John Yerkes Iselin, while Shaw's former commander, Major Bennett Marco, is wrecked by a recurring nightmare that contradicts the official account of the patrol's heroism. Digging into it, Marco finds that Shaw obeys orders he will not remember, cued by a game of solitaire and the queen of diamonds. John Frankenheimer's Cold War thriller, from Richard Condon's novel, plays out against a presidential campaign.
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is a film IMDb files under the drama and thriller genres. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. The runtime is 126 minutes. Its certificate is PG-13.
The calibrated figure is built from 300 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 307 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Manchurian Candidate 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 300.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
