Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s
Donnie Darko
Scored from 1,433 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A troubled teenager named Donnie Darko experiences a series of inexplicable events after a jet engine crashes into his home. He begins having visions of a mysterious man in a rabbit suit who tells him the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds. Donnie navigates his deteriorating mental state and school life while being drawn into a dangerous temporal mystery.
Donnie Darko is a 2001 drama, science fiction and thriller film starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone and Mary McDonnell. Its certificate is PG-13. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Richard Kelly directed it. It runs 1h 53m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 82,698 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 1,433 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,542 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Donnie Darko 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 1,433.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
