Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
Jarhead
Scored from 470 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A U.S. Marine sniper undergoes grueling training and deploys during the 1990 Gulf War. The film follows his psychological journey as he and his unit prepare for combat, exploring the tension, discipline, and emotional toll of military service during Operation Desert Storm.
Jarhead is a 2005 drama, war and biography film directed by Sam Mendes. It runs 2h 5m and carries an R certificate. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx and Peter Sarsgaard head the billed cast.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 470 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 482 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Jarhead 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 470.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
