Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s
Joe Dirt
Scored from 128 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A mulleted, good-natured janitor named Joe Dirt recounts on a Los Angeles radio show his cross-country search for the parents who abandoned him at the Grand Canyon as a child. His misadventures take him through small towns, odd jobs, and encounters with eccentric characters as he tries to find his family and reunite with his hometown crush.
Released in 2001, Joe Dirt is an adventure, comedy and drama film.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 4,388 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 128 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 132 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Joe Dirt 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 128.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
