Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Godsend
Scored from 131 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 young son Adam is killed in an accident, grieving parents Paul and Jessie Duncan accept an experimental offer from Dr. Richard Wells to clone him. The reborn Adam grows normally until around the age of his death, when he begins suffering disturbing visions and behavioral changes that hint something has gone very wrong with the procedure.
Released in 2004, Godsend is an action, drama and fantasy film.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 724 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 131 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 134 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Godsend 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 131.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
