Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Scored from 1,506 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A heartbroken man discovers that his ex-girlfriend has undergone a procedure to erase all memories of him from her mind. Devastated, he decides to undergo the same memory-erasure procedure. As the procedure erases her from his memory, he realizes he doesn't want to forget her and tries desperately to hide memories of her in different parts of his mind.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a 2004 drama, romance and science fiction film directed by Michel Gondry. Its certificate is R. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet and Kirsten Dunst head the billed cast. It runs 1h 48m.
The calibrated figure is built from 1,506 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,606 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 39,789 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 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 1,506.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
