Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Collateral
Scored from 802 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A Los Angeles taxi driver becomes an unwilling accomplice after picking up a mysterious passenger who reveals himself to be a professional assassin. Held at gunpoint, Max must drive the hitman across the city through the night as he completes a series of contracted kills, forcing Max into an escalating moral and physical crisis.
Collateral is a 2004 crime, thriller and drama film. The runtime is 120 minutes. It is rated R. It was made in the United States. Michael Mann directed it. It stars Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx and Jada Pinkett Smith.
802 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 822 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.
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 Collateral 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 802.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
