Film · 1962 · Films · 1960s
The Trial
Scored from 118 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Josef K., a bureaucratic office worker, is suddenly arrested one morning for an unspecified crime that authorities refuse to disclose. As he navigates a labyrinthine, nightmarish legal system, he encounters bizarre officials, manipulative lawyers, and accusers while struggling to defend himself against charges he cannot understand. Orson Welles's adaptation of Kafka's novel follows K.'s increasingly desperate attempts to assert his innocence in an absurd, oppressive world.
Released in 1962, The Trial is a drama, mystery and thriller film.
The calibrated figure is built from 118 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 118 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 395 of whom clear the calibration test. 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 Trial 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 118.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
