Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s
Amélie
Scored from 987 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Amélie Poulain is a solitary young waitress at a Montmartre café whose imagination is considerably livelier than her social life. After finding a boy's tin of childhood treasures hidden behind a wall in her flat and secretly returning it to its now middle-aged owner, she resolves to become an anonymous force for good in the lives around her: her widowed father, a bullying grocer, a housebound painter who endlessly copies Renoir. Her own heart proves harder — she is captivated by Nino, a young man who collects torn-up photobooth portraits, but can only approach him through elaborate clues and detours. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's romantic comedy renders Paris in saturated colour and narrated digressions.
Amélie is a 2001 fantasy, comedy and romance film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy. It was made in France, in French. Its certificate is R. It runs 2h 2m. Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz and Rufus head the billed cast.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 987 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,077 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 Amélie 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 987.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
