Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
I, Robot
Scored from 622 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In 2035 Chicago, Detective Del Spooner investigates the death of a prominent robotics scientist, uncovering a conspiracy involving advanced AI robots and questioning the reliability of the Three Laws of Robotics that govern them.
I, Robot is a 2004 science fiction, action and thriller film directed by Alex Proyas. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 55m and carries a PG-13 certificate. Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan and Alan Tudyk head the billed cast.
The calibrated figure is built from 622 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 658 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 27,980 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 I, Robot 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 622.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
