Film · 2007 · Films · 2000s
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Scored from 746 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A vengeful barber returns to Victorian London after years of false imprisonment, intent on destroying the corrupt judge who destroyed his family. Reuniting with pie shop owner Mrs. Lovett above his old shop on Fleet Street, he resumes his trade while plotting revenge, and the two devise a grisly partnership to dispose of his victims. Tim Burton's adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's dark musical.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) is a film IMDb files under the drama, horror and musical genres.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 48,313 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 746 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 775 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 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 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 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 746.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
