Film · 2000 · Films · 2000s
Pitch Black
Scored from 546 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A transport ship crashes on a desolate desert planet, stranding a dangerous prisoner and diverse crew. When darkness falls during a planetary eclipse, deadly creatures emerge from underground, forcing the survivors to band together to escape the nocturnal horrors.
Released in 2000, Pitch Black is a science fiction, action and thriller film. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 49m and carries an R certificate. David Twohy directed it, with Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell and Cole Hauser in the cast.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 8,807 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 546 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 568 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Pitch Black 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 546.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
