Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s
Signs
Scored from 1,457 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A former minister living on a Pennsylvania farm with his family experiences strange phenomena suggesting an extraterrestrial invasion. As mysterious crop circles appear and alien sightings spread globally, he and his family must confront both an external threat and their own faith, discovering that survival may depend on the simplest aspects of their everyday lives.
Released in 2002, Signs is a science fiction, thriller and drama film. Its certificate is PG-13. M. Night Shyamalan directed it, with Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix and Rory Culkin in the cast. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 46m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 28,771 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 1,457 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,565 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Signs 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 1,457.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
