Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
A Man Called Otto
Scored from 662 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A grumpy widower named Otto finds his isolated life disrupted when a young family moves into the neighborhood. As he reluctantly becomes involved in their lives, Otto discovers renewed purpose and the unexpected value of human connection.
A Man Called Otto is a 2022 drama and comedy film. It is rated PG-13. The runtime is 126 minutes. Marc Forster directed it, with Tom Hanks, Marcia Gay Harden and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo in the cast. It was made in the United States. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,006 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 662 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 685 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 7,929 other films from the 2020s 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 A Man Called Otto 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 · 2020s (7,930 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 662.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
