Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
Babylon
Scored from 861 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 1920s Hollywood during the transition from silent films to talkies, the film follows multiple interconnected characters navigating ambition, excess, and the volatility of the entertainment industry. An ensemble drama depicting both the glamorous rise and catastrophic fall of various players in the film world.
Babylon (2022) is a film IMDb files under the drama and history genres. It was made in the United States. It is rated R. It was directed by Damien Chazelle. It stars Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva. The runtime is 189 minutes.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 708 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 861 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 880 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Babylon 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 861.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
