Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
Vitus
Scored from 35 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Vitus is a Swiss boy with a startling IQ and a concert-level gift at the piano, played as a child by Fabrizio Borsani and later by the young pianist Teo Gheorghiu. His mother gives up her career to manage his future, and the calendar of lessons and recitals leaves him no childhood at all; his one refuge is his grandfather (Bruno Ganz), a carpenter who lets him build things and dream of flying. After a fall from a balcony, Vitus lets everyone believe the gift is gone, and from behind the disguise of an ordinary schoolboy he starts making plans of his own. Fredi M. Murer's feature is a Swiss family drama, performed largely in Swiss German.
Vitus (2006) is a film IMDb files under the drama and music genres. It is rated PG. Its listed language is German. The runtime is 119 minutes. It was made in Switzerland.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 35 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 35 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
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 Vitus 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 35.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
