Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
The Ladykillers
Scored from 275 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A smooth-talking Southern professor rents a room from a pious elderly widow in Mississippi and assembles a misfit crew to tunnel from her root cellar into a nearby riverboat casino's vault. The Coen brothers' remake of the 1955 Ealing comedy follows the gang's increasingly absurd attempts to pull off the heist and deal with their unexpectedly sharp-eyed landlady.
The Ladykillers (2004) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, crime and thriller genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.
The calibrated figure is built from 275 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 277 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Ladykillers 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 275.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
