Film · 1994 · Films · 1990s
Three Colors: Red
Scored from 178 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Valentine, a student and fashion model in Geneva, runs over a dog and returns it to its owner, Joseph Kern, a retired judge who spends his days illegally eavesdropping on his neighbours' telephone calls. She is repelled by what he does and keeps coming back anyway, and their arguments harden into an unlikely friendship while her possessive boyfriend phones from England. In a flat nearby, a young law student named Auguste is living out a version of the judge's own past without either of them knowing it. Krzysztof Kieslowski's French-language drama closes his Three Colours trilogy, taking fraternity as its theme.
Three Colors: Red (1994) is a film IMDb files under the drama, mystery and romance genres. It was made in France, in French. Its certificate is R. It runs 1h 39m.
4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,217 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 178 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 184 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Three Colors: Red 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 178.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
