Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s
District 9
Scored from 1,123 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
When a massive alien spacecraft hovers over Johannesburg, South Africa, the extraterrestrial refugees are confined to a sprawling slum called District 9. Twenty years later, bureaucrat Wikus van de Merwe is tasked with relocating the aliens when he's accidentally exposed to an alien substance, causing him to begin a terrifying physical transformation.
District 9 (2009) is a film IMDb files under the science fiction, action and thriller genres. It was made in South Africa. It runs 1h 52m. It stars Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope and David James. It is rated R. It was directed by Neill Blomkamp.
1,123 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 1,171 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 28,577 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 District 9 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 1,123.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
