Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s
Pearl Harbor
Scored from 1,141 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
On December 7, 1941, the U.S. Navy is caught off-guard when Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Two Navy pilots must survive the catastrophic assault while a romantic entanglement complicates their lives during the chaos of wartime.
Pearl Harbor is a 2001 war, drama and romance film directed by Michael Bay. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is PG-13. Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett and Kate Beckinsale head the billed cast. It runs 3h 3m.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 1,141 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,221 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Pearl Harbor 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 1,141.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
