Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s
K-PAX
Scored from 383 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A man claiming to be an alien visitor from the planet K-PAX is committed to a psychiatric hospital, where a skeptical doctor tries to uncover his true identity. As the patient's uncanny knowledge and calming influence on other inmates mount, the doctor is forced to question whether his explanations are delusion or something stranger.
Released in 2001, K-PAX is a drama, mystery and science-fiction film.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 383 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 403 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 K-PAX 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 383.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
