Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s
Windtalkers
Scored from 291 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
During World War II, a battle-hardened Marine sergeant is assigned to protect a Navajo code talker whose unbreakable language-based code is vital to U.S. operations in the Pacific. As they fight through the brutal campaign on Saipan, the sergeant struggles with his orders and the bond he forms with the man he is sworn to guard.
Released in 2002, Windtalkers is an action, drama and war film.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 291 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 301 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,035 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 Windtalkers 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 291.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
