Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s
Dune: Part One
Scored from 4,562 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Paul Atreides, heir to House Atreides, is sent with his family to govern the desert planet Arrakis, which produces the universe's most valuable spice. As he arrives, Paul begins to discover hidden abilities and learns of an ancient prophecy that may involve him. House Atreides faces dangerous political intrigue and threats from rival factions seeking control of Arrakis and its spice resources.
Released in 2021, Dune: Part One is a science fiction, adventure and drama film. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Denis Villeneuve directed it. Its certificate is PG-13. Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson and Oscar Isaac head the billed cast. It runs 2h 36m.
The calibrated figure is built from 4,562 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 4,785 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Dune: Part One 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 · 2020s (7,930 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 4,562.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
