Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s
Brüno
Scored from 340 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Flamboyant Austrian fashion reporter Bruno, after being blacklisted from the European fashion scene, travels to America with his devoted assistant in a relentless quest to become the world's biggest gay celebrity. His outrageous attempts at fame - through a celebrity interview show, adopting a baby, and chasing peace in the Middle East - provoke real, unscripted reactions from unsuspecting people.
Brüno (2009) is a film IMDb files under the comedy genre. Its comedy subtype is Mockumentary.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. 340 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 346 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 Brüno 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 340.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
