Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s
Mystic River
Scored from 832 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Three childhood friends reunite as adults when the daughter of one of them is murdered in their Boston neighborhood. As the investigation unfolds, the traumatic incident forces them to confront their shared past and the darkness that has shaped their lives.
Clint Eastwood directed Mystic River, a crime, drama and thriller film from 2003. It was made in the United States. It stars Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon. It is rated R. The runtime is 138 minutes.
832 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 851 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 7,066 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 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 Mystic River 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 832.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
