Film · 2000 · Films · 2000s
Malena
Scored from 217 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 Sicilian coastal town during World War II, a young teenage boy becomes infatuated with Malena, a stunning and lonely woman whose soldier husband is away at war. As he obsessively watches her from afar, the townspeople grow increasingly cruel toward her, driven by jealousy, gossip, and lust, forcing Malena into desperate circumstances to survive.
Malena is a 2000 drama, romance and war film.
The calibrated figure is built from 217 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 231 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 Malena 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 217.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
