Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
Brokeback Mountain
Scored from 1,289 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Two cowboys, Ennis and Jack, develop a romantic relationship while working together herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain during the summer of 1963. Over decades, they maintain a secret affair while navigating separate lives, marriages, and families, returning periodically to their isolated mountain sanctuary.
Brokeback Mountain (2005) is a film IMDb files under the drama, romance and western genres. Ang Lee directed it. It runs 2h 14m and carries an R certificate. It was made in the United States. It stars Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway.
1,289 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 1,397 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 22,939 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Brokeback Mountain 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 1,289.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
