Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s
Australia
Scored from 411 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
On the brink of World War II, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) inherits a cattle station in northern Australia and reluctantly partners with a rugged drover (Hugh Jackman) to drive a herd across hostile country to Darwin. Along the way she bonds with a young mixed-race Aboriginal boy threatened by the era's forced-assimilation policies, as the Japanese bombing of Darwin looms.
Australia is a 2008 adventure, drama and romance film.
The calibrated figure is built from 411 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 422 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 9,667 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 Australia 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 411.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
