Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s
The Taking of Pelham 123
Scored from 339 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A New York City subway dispatcher, Walter Garber, is thrust into a tense negotiation when a ruthless criminal named Ryder and his armed crew hijack a Pelham 123 train and take its passengers hostage. As Ryder demands a massive ransom within a strict deadline, Garber must keep him talking while the city scrambles to meet his demands, and a personal cat-and-mouse dynamic develops between the two men.
Released in 2009, The Taking of Pelham 123 is an action, crime and thriller film.
The calibrated figure is built from 339 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 344 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 Taking of Pelham 123 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 339.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
