Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
Batman Begins
Scored from 2,245 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
After witnessing his parents' murder as a child, Bruce Wayne grows up to train as a vigilante. Following years with the League of Assassins, he returns to Gotham City to confront the organized crime and corruption plaguing his hometown. Batman emerges as a symbol of justice to inspire hope and strike fear into the hearts of criminals.
Batman Begins (2005) is a film IMDb files under the action, crime and drama genres. It stars Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Liam Neeson. It runs 2h 20m. It is rated PG-13. It was made in the United States. It was directed by Christopher Nolan.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 60,114 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. 2,245 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 2,394 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Batman Begins 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 2,245.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
