Film · 2000 · Films · 2000s
Dark Days
Scored from 29 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Marc Singer's first film was shot in the Amtrak tunnel running under Manhattan's Riverside Park, where dozens of homeless New Yorkers had built plywood shacks, tapped the electricity and lived for years out of sight of the street. Singer moved in himself and trained the tunnel's residents as his 16mm crew, so the camera stays at their pace: scavenging scrap, cooking, keeping dogs and cats, and talking plainly about crack, prison and the losses that put them underground. The situation turns when Amtrak moves to reclaim the tunnel and the residents face eviction from the only settled homes they have. It is black-and-white observational documentary, cut to a score by DJ Shadow.
Dark Days (2000) is a film IMDb files under the documentary genre. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 22m.
Only 29 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 30 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 343 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Dark Days 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 29.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
