Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s
Timeline
Scored from 294 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A group of archaeology students travel back in time to 14th-century France to rescue their professor, who has become trapped in the past during a study of a medieval war site. Using experimental quantum technology developed by a tech corporation, they must navigate the dangers of the Hundred Years' War between the English and French to find him and return home before their window closes. Based on the Michael Crichton novel.
Released in 2003, Timeline is an action, adventure and science-fiction film.
The calibrated figure is built from 294 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 304 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.
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 Timeline 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 294.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
