Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
Syriana
Scored from 455 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Interlocking storylines trace the global oil industry's web of power: a veteran CIA operative on a Middle East mission, an energy analyst drawn into the orbit of a reformist Gulf prince, a Washington lawyer vetting a controversial oil-company merger, and a young Pakistani migrant worker radicalized after losing his refinery job. Their paths converge to expose how corporate, governmental, and personal interests collide over crude.
Syriana (2005) is a film IMDb files under the drama and thriller genres.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 455 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 468 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 6,815 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 Syriana 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 455.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
