Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
Topsy-Turvy
Scored from 149 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
After the disappointing reception of their opera Princess Ida, the celebrated Victorian partnership of composer Arthur Sullivan and librettist W.S. Gilbert reaches a creative impasse, with Sullivan eager to pursue serious music and Gilbert stung by accusations of relying on tired formulas. A visit to a Japanese exhibition in London inspires Gilbert to write what becomes The Mikado, and the film follows the troubled, meticulous process of bringing the new work to the stage.
Topsy-Turvy (1999) is a film IMDb files under the biography, comedy and drama genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 149 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 154 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Topsy-Turvy 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 149.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
