Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s
U.S. Marshals
Scored from 152 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard leads the hunt for Mark Sheridan, a fugitive who escapes during a plane crash while being transported in custody. As Gerard pursues him across the country, he uncovers evidence that Sheridan may not be the killer he is accused of being, and a Diplomatic Security agent attached to the team has his own hidden agenda.
Released in 1998, U.S. Marshals is an action, crime and thriller film.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 152 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 152 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 U.S. Marshals 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 152.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
