Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s
WALL·E
Scored from 1,142 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Andrew Stanton's Pixar feature opens in the 29th century, seven hundred years after humanity abandoned an Earth buried under its own rubbish. WALL·E, the last working waste-compacting robot left behind, spends his days pressing trash into cubes and stacking them into towers, salvaging trinkets, and rewatching a worn videotape of Hello, Dolly! with a cockroach for company. His routine breaks when a ship drops off EVE, a sleek reconnaissance robot sent to look for plant life; when she is recalled, the smitten WALL·E clings to her ship and follows her to the starliner Axiom, where the descendants of Earth's evacuees drift about on hover chairs. Much of the first act plays with almost no dialogue.
Released in 2008, WALL·E is an adventure, animation and family film. The runtime is 98 minutes. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is G.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 1,142 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,209 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 40,107 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 WALL·E 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 1,142.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
