Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Flight of the Phoenix
Scored from 179 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
After their cargo plane crashes in the Gobi Desert during a sandstorm, the survivors of an oil rig crew face dwindling supplies, hostile smugglers, and brutal heat. When rescue seems impossible, an enigmatic passenger claims he can help them build a new aircraft from the wreckage, forcing the desperate group to gamble their lives on his plan.
Released in 2004, Flight of the Phoenix is an action, adventure and drama film.
The calibrated figure is built from 179 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 184 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,394 of whom clear the calibration test. 7,846 other films from the 2000s 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 Flight of the Phoenix 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 179.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
