Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
Arrival
Scored from 1,941 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A linguist is recruited by the military to communicate with alien visitors who have arrived on Earth. As she works to understand their language and purpose, she discovers that the key to humanity's survival may lie in the structure of their extraterrestrial language itself.
Arrival is a 2016 science fiction, drama and thriller film starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Denis Villeneuve directed it. It runs 1h 56m and carries a PG-13 certificate.
The calibrated figure is built from 1,941 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,028 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. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3,979 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 Arrival 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 1,941.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
