Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Article 15
Scored from 258 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A newly posted IPS officer in a rural North Indian village investigates the disappearance of three lower-caste girls and uncovers entrenched caste discrimination, local corruption, and systemic indifference. As he pushes against resistance from his own subordinates and powerful upper-caste figures, he is forced to confront the constitutional promise of equality against the brutal reality on the ground.
Article 15 is a 2019 crime, drama and mystery film.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 258 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 302 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 22 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 Article 15 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 258.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
