Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s
Kissing Jessica Stein
Scored from 122 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Jessica Stein, a neurotic Manhattan journalist frustrated with the city's dating pool, impulsively answers a women-seeking-women personal ad and meets Helen, a confident art gallery worker. Despite never having been with a woman, Jessica tentatively explores the relationship while hiding it from her tight-knit family and coworkers, including her ex-boyfriend boss.
Kissing Jessica Stein is a 2001 comedy, drama and romance film. Inside comedy it is classed as Romcom.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 645 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 122 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 129 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Kissing Jessica Stein 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 122.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
