Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s
The Princess Diaries
Scored from 207 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Mia Thermopolis, an awkward San Francisco teenager, discovers that she is the heir to the throne of the small European kingdom of Genovia. Under the strict tutelage of her estranged grandmother Queen Clarisse, Mia must navigate princess lessons, high school drama, and a life-changing decision about whether to accept the crown.
The Princess Diaries (2001) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, family and romance genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Romcom.
The calibrated figure is built from 207 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 225 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 Princess Diaries 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 207.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
