Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s
The Magdalene Sisters
Scored from 120 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In Ireland in 1964, three young women are handed to a Magdalene asylum run by the Sisters of Mercy: Margaret, raped by a cousin at a family wedding; Bernadette, an orphanage girl judged too aware of the boys who watch her; and Rose, who has just borne a child outside marriage and had the baby taken. Under Sister Bridget they are put to unpaid work in the convent laundry, cut off from the outside world and told the labour will redeem them. Peter Mullan's drama, drawn from the history of the real Magdalene laundries, follows their attempts to endure, resist or escape a confinement with no fixed sentence.
Released in 2002, The Magdalene Sisters is a drama film. The runtime is 119 minutes. Its country of origin is listed as Ireland and the United Kingdom. Its certificate is R.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 120 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 129 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Magdalene Sisters 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 120.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
