Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Layer Cake
Scored from 296 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A successful, unnamed London cocaine dealer plans to retire from the trade, but his boss assigns him two final jobs: tracking down a crime lord's missing daughter and brokering the sale of a stolen shipment of ecstasy pills. As the deals unravel, he finds himself caught between ruthless gangsters, Serbian war criminals, and his own ambitions.
Released in 2004, Layer Cake is a crime, drama and thriller film.
The calibrated figure is built from 296 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 304 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 7,044 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.
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 Layer Cake 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 296.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
