Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Night Watch
Scored from 220 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In modern-day Moscow, an ancient truce between the forces of Light and Darkness is enforced by two opposing groups: the Night Watch, who police supernatural beings of the Dark, and the Day Watch, who monitor the Light. Anton, a reluctant Light Other working for the Night Watch, hunts a rogue vampire and uncovers a cursed woman whose vortex of damnation threatens the city, while a prophesied Great Other prepares to tip the balance.
Released in 2004, Night Watch is an action, fantasy and horror film.
The calibrated figure is built from 220 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 229 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 4,231 of whom clear the calibration test. 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 Night Watch 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 220.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
