Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s
Finding Nemo
Scored from 746 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Pixar's computer-animated adventure begins on the Great Barrier Reef, where Marlin, an anxious widowed clownfish, is raising his only son, Nemo. When Nemo swims into open water to defy him, a scuba diver scoops him up and carries him off to a dentist's aquarium above Sydney Harbour. Marlin sets out across the ocean after him, stuck with Dory, a good-natured blue tang whose short-term memory resets every few minutes, and diverted by sharks, jellyfish and turtles riding the East Australian Current. Inside the tank, Nemo falls in with the other fish, who have escape plans of their own.
Finding Nemo is a 2003 animation, family and adventure film starring Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres and Alexander Gould. Its certificate is G. Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich directed it. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 40m.
The calibrated figure is built from 746 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 797 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 177,232 of whom clear the calibration test. 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 Finding Nemo 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 746.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
