Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s
Don't Say a Word
Scored from 185 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A Manhattan psychiatrist's young daughter is kidnapped by a gang of thieves who demand he extract a six-digit number from the memory of a deeply disturbed young woman institutionalized in a psychiatric hospital. With only hours to find the number before his daughter is harmed, he must break through the patient's catatonic defenses while a detective investigates a related case.
Don't Say a Word is a 2001 drama, mystery and thriller film.
The calibrated figure is built from 185 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 189 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.
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 Don't Say a Word 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 185.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
