Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
A Hard Day
Scored from 60 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Driving at night to his mother's funeral, rattled by news that internal affairs is raiding his unit, Seoul detective Ko Gun-su hits a man on an empty road and kills him. Rather than report it, he conceals the body — smuggling it into his mother's coffin during the wake — and improvises one cover-up after another while the corruption investigation closes in on his squad. Then an anonymous caller tells him the accident was witnessed, and starts making demands. Kim Seong-hun's South Korean thriller, released domestically as Kkeutkkaji Ganda, plays the escalating disaster largely as black comedy.
A Hard Day (2014) is a film IMDb files under the action, crime and thriller genres. It was made in South Korea, in Korean. The runtime is 111 minutes.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. Only 60 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 61 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 27 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 A Hard Day 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 · 2010s (13,059 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 60.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
