Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Scored from 361 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A small-time New York thief stumbles into a Hollywood audition and is sent to Los Angeles, where he is paired with a gay private detective, Gay Perry, to research a role. The two get tangled in a real murder mystery alongside Harry's childhood crush, navigating a web of corpses, kidnappings, and double-crosses in a noir-tinged comedy narrated by the thief himself.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a 2005 comedy, crime and mystery film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 9,631 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 361 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 368 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 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 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 361.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
