Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
Lady in the Water
Scored from 662 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
An apartment superintendent discovers a mysterious creature in the complex's swimming pool. The residents work together to uncover the truth about the enigmatic visitor and help her escape dangerous forces pursuing her.
Lady in the Water is a 2006 fantasy, thriller and mystery film starring Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard and Jeffrey Wright. Its certificate is PG-13. M. Night Shyamalan directed it. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 50m.
The calibrated figure is built from 662 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 702 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 16,074 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Lady in the Water 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 662.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
