Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s
Hearts in Atlantis
Scored from 206 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In 1960, a fatherless eleven-year-old boy named Bobby Garfield befriends Ted Brautigan, a mysterious older man who rents a room in his mother's house. As they bond over books and baseball, Bobby discovers Ted possesses unusual psychic gifts and is being pursued by shadowy figures, forcing the boy to confront grown-up choices about loyalty, friendship, and first love.
Hearts in Atlantis (2001) is a film IMDb files under the drama and mystery genres.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 206 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 216 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 724 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Hearts in Atlantis 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 206.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
