Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
2046
Scored from 174 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In 1960s Hong Kong, writer Chow Mo-wan drifts through hotel rooms, romantic entanglements, and unfinished love affairs while composing a science-fiction story about a mysterious train bound for a place called 2046, where nothing ever changes and people go to recapture lost memories. As he moves between women who echo a past he cannot forget, his fiction and his life blur into a meditation on longing and time.
2046 is a 2004 drama, romance and science-fiction film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,370 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 174 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 183 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.
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 2046 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 · 2000s (7,847 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 · 2000s
