Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s
Moon
Scored from 619 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Sam Bell, an astronaut nearing the end of his three-year contract at a remote lunar mining base, works in isolation to mine helium-3. When an accident forces him to investigate the lunar surface, he uncovers disturbing mysteries that challenge his understanding of his mission and identity.
Released in 2009, Moon is a science fiction, drama and thriller film. It runs 1h 37m. Duncan Jones directed it. Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey and Dominique McElligott head the billed cast. Its certificate is R. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom and the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 619 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 638 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 8,770 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Moon 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 619.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
