Is The New World actually good?

The New World sits in the 29.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 29.5% of them.

How does The New World compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The New World lands in the 32.7% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is The New World's score based on?

492 calibrated reviewers stand behind The New World's score.

2005

global pct

29.5

Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s

The New World

Name: The New World
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Released: 2005

Scored from 492 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

29.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

32.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

10.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

492 calibrated reviewers

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 of its IMDb reviewers. 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.

Is The New World (2005) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 492
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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