Film · 1960 · Films · 1960s
The Young One
Scored from 26 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Luis Buñuel's English-language drama, produced in Mexico, unfolds on an isolated game preserve island off the coast of the American South. Miller, the white gamekeeper, lives there with Evvie, the adolescent granddaughter of the caretaker who has just died, and treats her as his property. Their routine is broken when Traver, a Black jazz clarinetist, lands on the island in a stolen boat, fleeing a false rape accusation and the mob behind it on the mainland. A visiting clergyman and one of Miller's hunting acquaintances arrive next, turning the island into a closed arena where race, sexual exploitation and self-serving morality collide.
Released in 1960, The Young One is a drama film. The runtime is 95 minutes. It was made in the United States.
1,928 other films from the 1960s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 35 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 26 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 26 reviewers with at least two reviews 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 Young One 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 26.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
