Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
United 93
Scored from 580 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A real-time dramatization of the events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, intercut with the chaos inside air traffic control centers and military command as officials struggle to grasp the unfolding hijackings. As passengers piece together the fate of the other planes, they resolve to take action against the hijackers.
Released in 2006, United 93 is an action, drama and history film. Its certificate is R. It runs 1h 51m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 6,047 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 580 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 614 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 United 93 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 580.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
