Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
Letters from Iwo Jima
Scored from 315 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In mid-1944 General Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrives on Iwo Jima to organise the island's defence and scraps the plan to hold the beaches, ordering his men to dig a network of tunnels and gun positions into the volcanic rock instead. Among the garrison are Saigo, a conscripted baker who wants only to survive and meet the daughter born after he left home, and Baron Nishi, an Olympic equestrian champion who once moved in American circles. When the US invasion lands in February 1945, the defenders fight knowing that no reinforcement and no evacuation are coming. Clint Eastwood directed this Japanese-language war drama as a companion piece to Flags of Our Fathers, framing the battle through letters the men wrote home.
Released in 2006, Letters from Iwo Jima is an action, adventure and drama film. Its certificate is R. It runs 2h 21m. It was made in the United States. It plays in Japanese.
The calibrated figure is built from 315 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 321 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. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 9,044 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 Letters from Iwo Jima 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 315.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
