Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Scored from 441 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In 18th-century France, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a foundling with an extraordinary sense of smell, becomes obsessed with capturing the perfect scent of a beautiful young woman. His relentless pursuit drives him to master the art of perfume-making, leading him down increasingly dark and dangerous paths. As his skills grow, his obsession consumes him entirely.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) is a film IMDb files under the drama, crime and thriller genres. It stars Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman. Its country of origin is listed as Germany, France and Spain. It runs 2h 27m. It was directed by Tom Tykwer. It is rated R. Its listed language is German.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. 441 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 467 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 10,291 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 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 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 441.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
