Film · 2007 · Films · 2000s
Atonement
Scored from 625 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In 1935 England, a young girl named Briony witnesses an encounter between her sister Cecilia and their neighbor Robbie, misinterpreting the moment. She then falsely accuses Robbie of a crime, setting in motion events that destroy multiple lives and echo across decades.
Atonement is a 2007 drama and romance film directed by Joe Wright. Keira Knightley, James McAvoy and Saoirse Ronan head the billed cast. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. Its certificate is R. It runs 2h 3m.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 625 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 644 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 26,232 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Atonement 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 625.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
