Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s
Osama
Scored from 49 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In Kabul under Taliban rule, a twelve-year-old girl lives with her widowed mother and grandmother in a household with no surviving men, which leaves the women forbidden to work or to walk the streets unaccompanied. To keep the family from starving, her mother cuts off her hair and dresses her as a boy so she can take a job with a shopkeeper who knew her father. A street boy, Espandi, recognises her and gives her the name Osama, and when the Taliban round up local boys for religious and military schooling she is taken with them and must sustain the disguise. Siddiq Barmak's drama was the first feature shot in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban.
Released in 2003, Osama is a drama film. It runs 1h 23m. Its certificate is PG-13. It plays in Dari.
Only 49 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 51 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 406 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Osama 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 49.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
