Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s
Zombieland
Scored from 696 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In a post-apocalyptic America overrun by zombies, a neurotic college student teams up with a Twinkie-obsessed gunslinger and two con-artist sisters as they travel cross-country in search of safety. Bound by survival rules and uneasy trust, the unlikely group heads toward a rumored zombie-free amusement park in California.
Zombieland is a 2009 action, comedy and horror film. Inside comedy it is classed as Action Comedy.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 19,909 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 696 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 719 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 Zombieland 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 696.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
