Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
Borat
Scored from 939 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A Kazakhstani television presenter travels across the United States to make a documentary about American culture. His crude behavior and satirical interviews with unsuspecting Americans create increasingly absurd and shocking situations that expose aspects of American society.
Borat is a 2006 comedy, mockumentary and satire film directed by Larry Charles. Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian and Pamela Anderson head the billed cast. Its certificate is R. Inside comedy it is classed as Mockumentary. It runs 1h 24m. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom and the United States.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 35,787 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 939 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 992 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 Borat 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 939.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
