Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s
Public Enemies
Scored from 577 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
During the Great Depression, FBI agent Melvin Purvis pursues the notorious bank robber John Dillinger, who leads a violent crime spree across America. As the cat-and-mouse hunt intensifies, both men become obsessed with outsmarting each other in an escalating conflict between law and lawlessness.
Public Enemies (2009) is a film IMDb files under the crime, drama and thriller genres. It was made in the United States. Michael Mann directed it, with Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard in the cast. It is rated R. The runtime is 140 minutes.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. 577 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 590 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Public Enemies 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 577.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
