Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
Barbarian
Scored from 1,197 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A woman arriving for an Airbnb rental discovers another guest already checked in. As the two attempt to resolve the double-booking, they uncover a dark secret hidden beneath the house that escalates into a terrifying nightmare.
Released in 2022, Barbarian is a horror and thriller film. Its certificate is R. Zeke Cowie directed it. Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård and Justin Long head the billed cast. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 42m.
7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 965 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 1,197 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,234 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 Barbarian 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 1,197.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
