Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Swing Girls
Scored from 34 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In rural Yamagata, a group of high-school girls skipping remedial summer maths agrees to run boxed lunches out to the school brass band at a baseball game; the food spoils on the way and the entire band ends up in hospital. Left with an empty band room and Nakamura, the one trumpeter who did not eat, ringleader Tomoko Suzuki and her friends volunteer as replacements and start learning big-band jazz from zero, none of them able to read a note. Instruments cost money they do not have, their maths teacher turns out to be a closet jazz fan of limited ability, and a student concert is approaching. Shinobu Yaguchi's comedy follows amateurs drilling toward a single public performance.
Released in 2004, Swing Girls is a comedy, drama and music film. It runs 1h 47m. It was made in Japan, in Japanese.
Only 34 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 37 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 187 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 Swing Girls 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 34.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
