Film · 1963 · Films · 1960s
The Raven
Scored from 122 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
A timid sorcerer is visited by a raven who turns out to be a fellow magician transformed by a rival. Joining forces with the bird-man and his own family, the meek wizard journeys to the castle of the powerful sorcerer responsible, leading to a comic duel of magic. Loosely inspired by Poe's poem, the film leans into horror-comedy with a trio of genre legends in the lead roles.
The Raven is a 1963 comedy, drama and fantasy film. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy.
122 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 122 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 1,928 other films from the 1960s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Raven 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 122.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
