Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
The Punisher
Scored from 462 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
FBI agent Frank Castle's entire family is slaughtered in a brutal ambush ordered by ruthless Tampa businessman Howard Saint, retaliation for the death of Saint's son in a botched undercover sting. Left for dead, Castle reinvents himself as the Punisher and methodically dismantles Saint's empire, turning the family patriarch's wife, money, and closest friend against him before delivering final vengeance.
The Punisher (2004) is a film IMDb files under the action, crime and drama genres.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 462 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 479 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 Punisher 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 462.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
