Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s
Lost in Translation
Scored from 1,343 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
An aging American actor and a young woman form an unexpected emotional connection while both staying in Tokyo and experiencing isolation in the foreign city. As they spend time together exploring the city, they provide each other with companionship and understanding during moments of personal uncertainty and disconnection.
Lost in Translation is a 2003 drama and comedy film. Sofia Coppola directed it, with Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson and Kazuki Kitamura in the cast. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy. Its listed language is English, Japanese. It runs 1h 42m and carries an R certificate. It was made in the United States.
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: 19,910 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 1,343 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 1,403 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 Lost in Translation 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 1,343.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
