Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s
Synecdoche, New York
Scored from 310 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A troubled New York theater director receives a MacArthur grant and uses it to mount an impossibly ambitious play inside a massive warehouse, building a life-size replica of the city and hiring actors to portray himself and the people around him. As decades blur past, his health declines and the line between his staged production and his actual life dissolves into a meditation on mortality, regret, and identity.
Synecdoche, New York (2008) is a film IMDb files under the drama genre.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 310 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 314 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3,553 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 Synecdoche, New York 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 310.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
