Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
Scored from 53 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Recently widowed and newly arrived in London from Scotland, Sarah Palfrey (Joan Plowright) takes a long-stay room at the Claremont, a shabby-genteel residential hotel on the Cromwell Road whose other permanent guests are elderly people slowly running out of money and visitors. She waits for her grandson Desmond to call; he never does. After a fall in the street she is helped up by Ludovic Meyer, a young busker and would-be novelist in a nearby basement flat, and when he brings her home she introduces him to the residents as Desmond. Dan Ireland's comedy-drama, from Elizabeth Taylor's 1971 novel, follows the friendship the lie makes possible and the strain it puts on both of them.
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is a 2005 comedy and drama film. It runs 1h 48m. It is rated PG. It was made in the United Kingdom.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 208 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 53 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 54 reviewers with at least two reviews 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 Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont 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 53.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
