Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s
500 Days of Summer
Scored from 682 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Tom, a greeting card writer, falls for Summer, a free-spirited woman who doesn't believe in true love. Told through non-linear vignettes across 500 days of their relationship, the film explores Tom's romantic idealism clashing with Summer's emotional unavailability, leading to heartbreak and self-discovery.
Released in 2009, 500 Days of Summer is a romance, comedy and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Marc Webb directed it. Its certificate is PG-13. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel and Geoffrey Arend head the billed cast. It runs 1h 35m.
The calibrated figure is built from 682 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 707 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 13,494 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s 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 500 Days of Summer 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 682.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
