Film · 2000 · Films · 2000s
Drowning Mona
Scored from 127 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
When the town pariah Mona Dearly drives off a cliff in a borrowed Yugo, the police chief of a small upstate New York village investigates her death as a possible murder. The trouble is that nearly everyone in town despised Mona and had reason to want her dead, leaving the chief to sort through a parade of eccentric suspects.
Drowning Mona (2000) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, crime and mystery genres.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 383 of whom clear the calibration test. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 127 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 131 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 Drowning Mona 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 127.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
