Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Saw
Scored from 1,193 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Two men awaken chained in a grimy bathroom with no memory of how they arrived. A mysterious killer known as 'Jigsaw' forces them to participate in a deadly game where they must solve puzzles and overcome brutal traps to survive. As they race against time and struggle to escape, they uncover a sinister connection between their pasts and their captor.
Saw (2004) is a film IMDb files under the horror, thriller and crime genres. It is rated R. The runtime is 103 minutes. It was made in the United States. It stars Cary Elwes, Danny Glover and Michael Emerson. It was directed by James Wan.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 32,789 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. 1,193 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 1,247 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 Saw 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 1,193.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
