Film · 2007 · Films · 2000s
No Reservations
Scored from 128 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A perfectionist Manhattan chef who runs her life and her kitchen with rigid control finds both upended when she becomes the guardian of her young niece after a family tragedy. Her carefully ordered world is further disrupted by the arrival of a free-spirited sous chef whose easygoing style clashes with hers, forcing her to rethink how she approaches work, love, and family.
No Reservations (2007) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and romance genres.
The calibrated figure is built from 128 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 130 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 No Reservations 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 128.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
