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Wild River
Scored from 47 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Elia Kazan's drama is set in Tennessee in the 1930s, where Chuck Glover arrives as a Tennessee Valley Authority agent with one task left before a new dam floods the valley: clearing the last holdout off her land. She is Ella Garth, an old woman who owns an island in the river and refuses every offer on the grounds that no government can buy what her family built. Glover, an outsider whose federal errand already irritates the town, is drawn to Ella's widowed granddaughter Carol while pressing the eviction, and is isolated further when he hires Black laborers at the same wage as white ones. Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick and Jo Van Fleet star.
Released in 1960, Wild River is a drama, history and romance film. The runtime is 110 minutes. It was made in the United States.
Only 47 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 47 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 40 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Wild River 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 · 1960s (1,929 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 47.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
