Film · 2000 · Films · 2000s
American Psycho
Scored from 1,216 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Patrick Bateman is a wealthy, superficially charming investment banker living in Manhattan during the 1980s. Obsessed with status, designer labels, and maintaining a perfect image, he navigates the competitive world of high finance while his carefully constructed facade begins to crack, revealing darker impulses beneath.
American Psycho is a 2000 thriller, crime and drama film. It stars Christian Bale, Jared Leto and Willem Dafoe. It was made in the United States. It is rated R. It was directed by Mary Harron. The runtime is 101 minutes.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 1,216 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 1,262 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 17,386 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 American Psycho 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 1,216.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
