Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
The Good German
Scored from 145 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In the chaos of post-WWII Berlin during the 1945 Potsdam Conference, American military journalist Jake Geismer returns to the ruined city and searches for his prewar lover, Lena Brandt, only to find her entangled with a black-market racket run by his own driver. As Jake digs deeper, he uncovers a conspiracy involving missing German scientists and Allied intelligence maneuvering in the early days of the Cold War.
The Good German (2006) is a film IMDb files under the drama, mystery and romance genres.
The calibrated figure is built from 145 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 149 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Good German 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 145.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
