Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s
Asteroid City
Scored from 613 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Set in the 1950s, a small desert town called Asteroid City hosts a Junior Stargazer convention. When a mysterious meteor creates a UFO sighting over the town, it becomes the central mystery that draws attention and disrupts the lives of the townspeople and visitors, weaving together romantic entanglements and family dramas amid the peculiar events.
Asteroid City is a 2023 comedy, drama and romance film starring Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Hanks. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy. It runs 1h 45m. Its certificate is PG. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Wes Anderson directed it.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 762 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 613 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 629 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Asteroid City 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 613.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
