Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
Flags of Our Fathers
Scored from 359 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Clint Eastwood's WWII drama follows the six servicemen who raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the three survivors who were pulled from combat to tour the United States as living symbols in a war bond drive. As they're paraded as heroes, they wrestle with grief, survivor's guilt, and the uneasy gap between the iconic photograph and what actually happened on the island.
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) is a film IMDb files under the action, adventure and drama genres.
The calibrated figure is built from 359 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 374 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 7,577 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.
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 Flags of Our Fathers 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 359.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
