Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
Babel
Scored from 711 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A multinational ensemble drama following four interconnected stories across three continents: an American couple in crisis in Morocco, a deaf Japanese schoolgirl seeking connection in Tokyo, and a Mexican nanny in California. When a hunting accident in the Moroccan desert triggers a chain of events, the film explores themes of isolation, miscommunication, and human connection across cultural divides.
Released in 2006, Babel is a drama and mystery film. Its certificate is R. Alejandro González Iñárritu directed it. Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Rinko Kikuchi head the billed cast. It runs 2h 22m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 17,341 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 711 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 729 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 Babel 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 711.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
