Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
The Break-Up
Scored from 381 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
After a Chicago couple, art dealer Brooke and tour guide Gary, split following a heated argument, neither is willing to move out of their shared condo. What begins as a stubborn standoff turns into an escalating war of petty revenge, meddling friends, and misguided attempts to make each other jealous, forcing both to confront what they really want.
The Break-Up is a 2006 comedy, drama and romance film. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 20 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 381 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 398 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Break-Up 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 381.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
