Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s
Irreversible
Scored from 551 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Presented in reverse chronological order, the film opens with violent aftermath and works backwards through time, following a woman, her boyfriend, and their friend as it traces the events preceding a brutal tragedy.
Irreversible is a 2002 drama, thriller and crime film starring Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel and Albert Dupontel. Its certificate is NC-17. Its country of origin is listed as France. It runs 1h 37m. It plays in French. Gaspar Noé directed it.
The calibrated figure is built from 551 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 571 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3,470 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 Irreversible 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 551.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
