Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Scored from 55 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Dante Remus Lăzărescu, a 62-year-old retired engineer living alone with his cats in a Bucharest apartment, spends an evening with a headache and stomach pain, drinking and pestering his neighbours before finally calling an ambulance. The paramedic who answers, Mioara, takes him from one hospital to the next across a night when a bus crash has filled the city's emergency rooms. At each stop doctors lecture him about his drinking, dispute the previous hospital's diagnosis, demand signatures and send him on. Cristi Puiu's Romanian film follows the transfer in near real time, with a deadpan ear for institutional talk.
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and drama genres. It plays in Romanian. It runs 2h 40m. Its country of origin is listed as Romania.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 303 of whom clear the calibration test. Only 55 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 58 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.
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 Death of Mr. Lazarescu 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 55.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
