Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s
Big Fish
Scored from 705 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
An aging man recounts his extraordinary life story to his estranged son, who struggles to separate fact from the tall tales his father has always told. Through flashbacks, we see young Edward Bloom's adventures—from small-town romance to encounters with fantastical characters—as his son attempts to understand the man his father truly was before illness separates them forever.
Big Fish is a 2003 fantasy, drama and romance film starring Ewan McGregor, Ed Harris and Albert Finney. Its certificate is PG-13. It runs 2h 5m. Tim Burton directed it. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 705 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 749 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Big Fish 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 705.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
