Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
Little Children
Scored from 290 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In a quiet suburb, a stay-at-home mother and a stay-at-home father drift into an affair as they navigate the disappointments of their marriages and the routines of parenting. Their lives intersect with those of other neighbors, including a recently paroled sex offender whose return unsettles the community and a former cop obsessed with driving him out.
Little Children (2006) is a film IMDb files under the drama and romance genres.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 6,694 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 290 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 297 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.
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 Little Children 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 290.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
