Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s
Avatar
Scored from 2,800 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 distant planet Pandora, a paralyzed human Marine named Jake Sully infiltrates the indigenous Na'vi people through an avatar body. Tasked with gathering intelligence for a mining corporation seeking a valuable mineral called unobtanium, Jake instead falls in love with Neytiri, a Na'vi princess, and begins to embrace their culture and values.
Avatar is a 2009 science fiction, action and adventure film starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Stephen Lang. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is PG-13. James Cameron directed it. It runs 2h 42m.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 48,699 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 2,800 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,939 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 Avatar 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 2,800.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
