Film · 2000 · Films · 2000s
In the Mood for Love
Scored from 428 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In 1960s Hong Kong, two neighbors discover their respective spouses are having an affair with each other. Unable to confront them directly, they begin to share their grief and understanding, developing an intimate emotional connection as they recreate scenes between their unfaithful partners.
Released in 2000, In the Mood for Love is a drama and romance film. Its country of origin is listed as Hong Kong. It runs 1h 38m. It was directed by Wong Kar-wai. Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung and Kelly Chen head the billed cast. It plays in Cantonese.
The calibrated figure is built from 428 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 451 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,958 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.
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 In the Mood for Love 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 428.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
