Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Garden State
Scored from 563 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A thirty-something actor returns to his hometown in New Jersey after his mother's death, reconnecting with old friends and an enigmatic young woman while struggling with depression and estrangement from his father. As he navigates his past and present, he discovers an unexpected path toward healing and self-discovery.
Garden State (2004) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and romance genres. Zach Braff directed it, with Zach Braff, Natalie Portman and Peter Sarsgaard in the cast. It was made in the United States. It is rated R. The runtime is 102 minutes.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 22,331 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 563 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 599 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 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 Garden State 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 563.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
