Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s
Matchstick Men
Scored from 258 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Roy, an obsessive-compulsive con artist working small swindles with his partner Frank, has his carefully controlled life upended when he discovers he has a teenage daughter, Angela. As she insinuates herself into his world and begs to learn the trade, Roy must juggle his crippling neuroses, a high-stakes long con, and his unexpected role as a father.
Matchstick Men is a 2003 comedy, crime and drama film. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 4,043 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 258 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 266 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 Matchstick Men 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 258.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
