Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
Hard Candy
Scored from 574 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A 14-year-old girl meets an adult photographer through an online chat and visits his home. What begins as a seduction scenario turns into a psychological thriller when the girl takes control, trapping the man in his own apartment with sinister intentions.
Hard Candy is a 2005 thriller, crime and drama film starring Patrick Wilson, Elliot Page and Sandra Oh. Its certificate is R. David Slade directed it. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 44m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 9,680 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 574 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 596 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Hard Candy 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 574.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
