Film · 2007 · Films · 2000s
Young@Heart
Scored from 31 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Stephen Walker's documentary follows the Young@Heart Chorus of Northampton, Massachusetts, a choir whose members average around eighty and whose repertoire is rock, punk and soul. Over roughly seven weeks of rehearsal, director Bob Cilman drills them on new material — songs by The Clash, Sonic Youth, Coldplay and James Brown — for an upcoming hometown concert, and the singers wrestle with lyrics and tempos written for people half a century younger. Illness and frailty intrude on the schedule as the date approaches. Interspersed are music videos the chorus filmed and footage of them performing for an audience of prison inmates.
Young@Heart (2007) is a film IMDb files under the documentary and music genres. Its certificate is PG. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 47m.
Only 31 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 32 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 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 Young@Heart 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 31.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
