Film · 1974 · Films · 1970s
The Phantom of Liberty
Scored from 258 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
Luis Bunuel's surrealist anthology drifts through a chain of loosely connected vignettes that mock bourgeois conventions, religion, law, and social taboos. Characters pass the narrative baton from one absurd situation to the next, including a dinner party held on toilets, a missing girl who is present the whole time, and a sniper celebrated as a hero. The film has no central plot, only a daisy chain of dreamlike episodes puncturing the illusion of freedom.
The Phantom of Liberty is a 1974 comedy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Satire.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 258 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 279 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 Phantom of Liberty 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 258.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
