Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s
The Time Traveler's Wife
Scored from 251 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Henry, a Chicago librarian with a genetic disorder that causes him to involuntarily travel through time, meets Clare, an artist who has known him since childhood through his future visits. As they marry and try to build a life together, his unpredictable disappearances strain their relationship and complicate their hopes of starting a family.
Released in 2009, The Time Traveler's Wife is a drama, fantasy and romance film.
The calibrated figure is built from 251 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 255 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 Time Traveler's Wife 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 251.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
