Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s
Bus 174
Scored from 40 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
On 12 June 2000 a young man named Sandro do Nascimento boarded a bus on Rio de Janeiro's 174 route, drew a revolver and held its passengers for more than four hours while television crews broadcast the siege live. Jose Padilha and Felipe Lacerda's documentary rebuilds that afternoon from the news footage, then cuts away to hostages, police officers, social workers and people who knew the gunman as a homeless child and as a survivor of the 1993 Candelaria massacre. The two strands set the televised standoff against the streets, reform schools, overcrowded jails and unprepared police operation behind it.
Released in 2002, Bus 174 is a crime and documentary film. The runtime is 150 minutes. Its listed language is Portuguese. It was made in Brazil.
Only 40 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 42 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 301 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Bus 174 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 40.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
