Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Scored from 191 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Game show host Chuck Barris, creator of The Dating Game and The Gong Show, claims in his autobiography to have led a double life as a CIA assassin. The film follows his rise in television alongside his alleged covert missions abroad, blurring the line between showbiz absurdity and Cold War espionage.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) is a film IMDb files under the biography, comedy and crime genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,824 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 191 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 197 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 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 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 191.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
