Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s
K-19: The Widowmaker
Scored from 195 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In 1961, the Soviet Union rushes its first nuclear ballistic missile submarine, K-19, into service under the command of Captain Alexei Vostrikov (Harrison Ford), who replaces the crew's beloved Captain Mikhail Polenin (Liam Neeson). During its maiden voyage, a catastrophic reactor coolant failure threatens a meltdown, forcing the crew to make desperate sacrifices to prevent disaster while tensions between the two officers mount.
Released in 2002, K-19: The Widowmaker is a drama, history and thriller film.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 195 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 202 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 K-19: The Widowmaker 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 195.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
