Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Scored from 426 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In 1950s America, journalist Edward R. Murrow and his CBS News team challenge Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch hunts, risking their careers to expose the dangers of fear-mongering and propaganda. Murrow uses his broadcast platform to advocate for truth and journalistic integrity against the tide of McCarthyism.
George Clooney directed Good Night, and Good Luck., a drama and history film from 2005. It was made in the United States. It runs 1h 33m. It stars David Strathairn, George Clooney and Robert Downey Jr.. It is rated R.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. 426 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 437 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Good Night, and Good Luck. 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 426.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
