Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
Eight Below
Scored from 192 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
After a sudden Antarctic storm forces a research expedition to evacuate, guide Jerry Shepard is compelled to leave his team of eight beloved sled dogs chained at the base, expecting to return within days. As bureaucratic and weather obstacles stretch that wait into months, Jerry struggles to mount a rescue while the dogs fight to survive on the ice.
Eight Below is a 2006 adventure, drama and family film.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 8,317 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 192 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 206 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Eight Below 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 192.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
