Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
The Terminal
Scored from 593 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Viktor Navorski, a traveler from the fictional Eastern European country of Krakozhia, arrives at New York's JFK airport only to learn that a coup back home has rendered his passport invalid. Stranded in the international terminal and unable to enter the U.S. or return home, he builds a makeshift life among the airport's staff and shops while striking up a tentative romance with a flight attendant.
Released in 2004, The Terminal is a comedy, drama and romance film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 593 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 612 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 Terminal 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 593.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
