Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Scored from 525 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
During the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Jack Aubrey commands the British naval frigate HMS Surprise and encounters the formidable French warship Acheron. After an initial engagement, Aubrey is determined to pursue the French vessel across the oceans to engage it in battle. He leads his crew on a perilous voyage around the world to hunt down and defeat the enemy ship.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) is a film IMDb files under the action, adventure and drama genres. It was made in the United States. It runs 2h 18m and carries a PG-13 certificate. It was directed by Peter Weir. It stars Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany and James Wood.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. 525 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 553 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 5,004 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 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 525.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
