Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
The New World
Scored from 492 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Terrence Malick's lyrical retelling of the 1607 founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia, centered on the encounter between English captain John Smith and Pocahontas, the young daughter of the Powhatan chief. Their bond is tested by cultural collision, betrayal, and her later journey into colonial society, where she meets tobacco planter John Rolfe.
The New World is a 2005 biography, drama and history film.
The calibrated figure is built from 492 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 509 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 New World 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 492.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
