Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
Alien: Covenant
Scored from 1,887 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
The crew of the colony ship Covenant deviates from their mission to investigate a signal from an uncharted world, believing they've found an ideal destination for human settlement. Upon landing, they discover the remnants of a failed expedition and encounter deadly creatures. They also find David, the synthetic from the previous mission, who has been conducting dangerous experiments on the planet.
Alien: Covenant is a 2017 science fiction, horror and thriller film starring Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston and Billy Crudup. It runs 2h 2m and carries an R certificate. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Ridley Scott directed it.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,688 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 1,887 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,955 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them.
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 Alien: Covenant 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 1,887.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
