Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Scored from 518 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Andy Stitzer is a mild-mannered electronics store stockroom employee whose coworkers discover, during a poker night, that he has never had sex. Determined to help, they launch a series of well-meaning but disastrous schemes to get him laid, while Andy unexpectedly strikes up a genuine relationship with Trish, a single mother who runs a shop across the street.
Released in 2005, The 40-Year-Old Virgin is a comedy and romance film. Its comedy subtype is Romcom.
518 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 536 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 36,380 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 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 The 40-Year-Old Virgin 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 518.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
