Film · 1994 · Films · 1990s
The Shadow
Scored from 130 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
In 1930s New York, reformed opium warlord Lamont Cranston has been trained to use his psychic powers to cloud men's minds and fight crime as the mysterious vigilante known as The Shadow. When Shiwan Khan, the last descendant of Genghis Khan, arrives in the city with a plan to hold the world hostage using an atomic bomb, Cranston must stop him while navigating his growing attraction to telepathic socialite Margo Lane.
Released in 1994, The Shadow is an action, adventure and crime film.
4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 130 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 133 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Shadow 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 130.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
