Film · 1968 · Films · 1960s
The Odd Couple
Scored from 131 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Gene Saks's film of Neil Simon's stage comedy opens with Felix Ungar, a fastidious New York news writer, wandering the city after his wife throws him out. His friend Oscar Madison, a divorced sportswriter whose Manhattan apartment has decayed into a slum of old sandwiches and unwashed laundry, takes him in, and the two try to keep house together on Felix's compulsive tidying and Oscar's disorder. The strain spreads to the Friday-night poker game the men host with their friends, and comes to a head over a double date Oscar arranges with the two English sisters who live upstairs. Walter Matthau plays Oscar, repeating his Broadway performance, opposite Jack Lemmon as Felix.
Released in 1968, The Odd Couple is a comedy film. Its certificate is G. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 45m.
The calibrated figure is built from 131 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 133 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 Odd Couple 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 131.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
