Film · 1995 · Films · 1990s
To Die For
Scored from 174 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
An ambitious small-town woman obsessed with becoming a television star marries a kind but unambitious man, only to decide that he is an obstacle to her dreams. She seduces a trio of disaffected teenagers and manipulates them into helping her eliminate the problem, all while cultivating her on-camera image. Told in mockumentary style through interviews and confessions, the film satirizes America's hunger for fame and media celebrity.
Released in 1995, To Die For is a comedy, crime and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 174 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 178 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 To Die For 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 174.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
