Film · 1994 · Films · 1990s
Three Colors: White
Scored from 125 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
A Polish hairdresser, humiliated by his French wife's divorce and abandonment in Paris, smuggles himself back to Warsaw with nothing. Reinventing himself in post-communist Poland, he builds a fortune through shrewd property deals and plots an elaborate scheme to win back his ex-wife on his own terms. The second film in Kieslowski's trilogy is a dark comedy on equality, revenge, and reinvention.
Released in 1994, Three Colors: White is a comedy, drama and romance film.
The calibrated figure is built from 125 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 125 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. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 778 of whom clear the calibration test.
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: White 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 125.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
