Film · 1994 · Films · 1990s
The Next Karate Kid
Scored from 135 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Mr. Miyagi takes in Julie, the troubled teenage granddaughter of an old wartime friend, after her parents' death leaves her grieving and angry. As she clashes with a militaristic high school cadet corps and its abusive leader, Miyagi teaches her karate and inner balance to help her find peace and stand up for herself.
The Next Karate Kid is a 1994 action, drama and family film.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 135 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 137 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 Next Karate Kid 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 135.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
