Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Scored from 432 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
After their parents die in a mysterious fire, three orphaned children are placed under the guardianship of the distant and sinister Count Olaf, who is determined to steal their family fortune through a series of elaborate cons and schemes.
A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) is a film IMDb files under the adventure, comedy and family genres. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy. It was made in the United States. The runtime is 108 minutes. Barry Sonnenfeld directed it. It stars Jim Carrey, Emily Browning and Liam Aiken. It is rated PG.
432 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 455 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 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 A Series of Unfortunate Events 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 432.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
