Film · 2007 · Films · 2000s
August Rush
Scored from 267 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
An orphaned musical prodigy with an uncanny ear for the sounds around him runs away from his group home to New York City, convinced the music he hears will lead him to the parents he has never met. Taken in by a Fagin-like street musician who renames him August Rush, he begins composing his way toward a reunion with the cellist and Irish rocker who unknowingly conceived him after a single night.
Released in 2007, August Rush is a drama and music film.
267 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 293 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 14,995 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 August Rush 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 267.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
