Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s
Frost/Nixon
Scored from 261 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In 1977, three years after Richard Nixon resigned over Watergate, British talk-show host David Frost gambles his own money on a series of taped interviews with the former president, financing them himself after the American networks decline. Nixon's camp expects an easy payday from a lightweight entertainer, while Frost's researchers, James Reston Jr. and Bob Zelnick, want the trial the courts never held. The two men circle each other across days of taping, with Nixon controlling the ground and Frost's investment and reputation draining away. Ron Howard's drama adapts Peter Morgan's stage play, with Michael Sheen and Frank Langella reprising their roles.
Frost/Nixon (2008) is a film IMDb files under the biography, drama and history genres. It is rated R. The runtime is 122 minutes. It was made in the United States and the United Kingdom.
261 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 264 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 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 Frost/Nixon 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 261.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
