Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
Arbitrage
Scored from 173 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A wealthy hedge fund magnate scrambles to sell his firm before fraud in the books is uncovered, while simultaneously trying to cover up his involvement in a fatal car accident involving his mistress. As a detective closes in and his daughter begins questioning the company's finances, he must rely on favors and lies to hold his empire and family together.
Released in 2012, Arbitrage is a drama and thriller film.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 173 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 173 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,116 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Arbitrage 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 173.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
