Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
Serenity
Scored from 937 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Captain Malcolm Reynolds and his crew of smugglers and misfits are hunted by the Alliance government after harboring River Tam, a young woman with dangerous psychic abilities. Pursued by both government forces and a mysterious assassin, the crew must evade capture while uncovering the truth about River's origins and a secret that could alter the course of human civilization.
Released in 2005, Serenity is a science fiction, action and adventure film. Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres and Alan Tudyk head the billed cast. Joss Whedon directed it. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is PG-13. It runs 1h 59m.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 937 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,007 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 19,604 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Serenity 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 937.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
