Film · 2007 · Films · 2000s
Shake Hands with the Devil
Scored from 26 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Canadian general Romeo Dallaire takes command of the small UN force sent to Rwanda in 1993 to oversee the Arusha accords between the government and the Tutsi-led RPF. As Hutu militias arm themselves and radio broadcasts turn openly murderous, his warnings to UN headquarters in New York are answered with tighter limits on his mandate. After the president's plane is shot down in April 1994 and the killing starts, Dallaire is left with a few hundred troops, no authority to intervene, and thousands of civilians sheltering behind his lines. Roger Spottiswoode's Canadian drama, with Roy Dupuis as Dallaire, adapts the general's own memoir of the genocide.
Shake Hands with the Devil (2007) is a film IMDb files under the drama, history and war genres. Its country of origin is listed as Canada. It runs 1h 50m.
Only 26 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 28 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 10 of whom clear the calibration test. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Shake Hands with the Devil 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 26.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
