Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
New York Doll
Scored from 26 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Arthur 'Killer' Kane, bassist of the proto-punk band the New York Dolls, spent the decades after the group's 1970s collapse broke and largely forgotten in Los Angeles - sober, converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and working at the church's Family History Center library. In 2004 Morrissey, a lifelong fan curating London's Meltdown Festival, invited the surviving Dolls to reunite onstage. Greg Whiteley's documentary follows Kane as he gets his bass out of pawn, rehearses with estranged bandmates David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain, and tries to square his quiet faith with the life he left.
New York Doll (2005) is a film IMDb files under the documentary and music genres. The runtime is 87 minutes. It was made in the United States. It is rated PG-13.
Only 26 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 27 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 171 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 New York Doll 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 26.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
