Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
Little Miss Sunshine
Scored from 815 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A dysfunctional family embarks on a cross-country road trip to get their 8-year-old daughter to a beauty pageant in California. As various family members' personal crises unfold during the journey, they must learn to support each other despite their emotional baggage and conflicting goals.
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and family genres. It is rated R. It was made in the United States. It stars Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette and Steve Carell. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy. It was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The runtime is 101 minutes.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 38,716 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 815 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 851 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Miss Sunshine 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 815.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
