Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
Children of Men
Scored from 1,099 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In a dystopian near-future where human infertility has devastated civilization, a jaded government agent is drawn into a dangerous mission to protect a woman who has mysteriously become pregnant—humanity's last hope. As society collapses into authoritarian chaos, he must navigate warring factions and government forces to keep her safe.
Children of Men is a 2006 science fiction, drama and thriller film starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine. Its certificate is R. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. Alfonso Cuarón directed it. It runs 1h 49m.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 34,607 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 1,099 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,149 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 Children of Men 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 1,099.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
