Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s
There's Something About Mary
Scored from 463 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Years after a disastrous prom night, Ted hires a sleazy private investigator to track down Mary, the high school crush he never got over. When the detective falls for her himself and lies to keep Ted away, a string of other obsessed suitors emerges, and Ted heads to Florida to compete for Mary's affection through a series of mortifying mishaps.
Released in 1998, There's Something About Mary is a comedy and romance film. Inside comedy it is classed as Romcom.
The calibrated figure is built from 463 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 475 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 4,081 other films from the 1990s 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 There's Something About Mary 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 463.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
