Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s
Punch-Drunk Love
Scored from 647 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Barry Egan, a socially awkward businessman burdened by seven manipulative sisters, unexpectedly falls in love with Lena Leonard, a mysterious woman. As he navigates his newfound romantic feelings, Barry becomes entangled in a bizarre phone sex line scam while struggling to manage his family's interference and his own emotional vulnerabilities.
Punch-Drunk Love is a 2002 comedy, drama and romance film starring Adam Sandler, Emily Watson and Dan Aykroyd. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Paul Thomas Anderson directed it. Its certificate is R. It runs 1h 35m. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 647 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 676 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 Punch-Drunk Love 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 647.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
