Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s
Mulholland Drive
Scored from 1,361 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
An aspiring actress befriends a woman with amnesia after a car accident on Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles. As they work to uncover the woman's identity, their lives become entangled in a complex web of illusion and reality that blurs the line between dreams and waking life.
Mulholland Drive is a 2001 drama, mystery and thriller film directed by David Lynch. The runtime is 147 minutes. Naomi Watts, Laura Harring and Justin Theroux head the billed cast. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is R.
The calibrated figure is built from 1,361 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,444 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.
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 Mulholland Drive 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 1,361.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
