Film · 2020 · Films · 2020s
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes
Scored from 41 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Kato, who runs a small coffee shop in Kyoto and lives in the flat above it, goes upstairs after closing and finds his own image on the computer monitor speaking to him from the shop downstairs — two minutes in the future. The television down in the café shows the same span two minutes in the past. Once his employee, his neighbours and a woman from a nearby shop crowd in, they start aiming the two screens at each other to stretch the window further ahead, and then to exploit what they can see. Junta Yamaguchi's low-budget Japanese comedy was shot on an iPhone and staged to look like one unbroken take.
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes is a 2020 comedy and science-fiction film. Its listed language is Japanese. The runtime is 77 minutes. It was made in Japan.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 18 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them. Only 41 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 41 reviewers with at least two reviews 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 Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes 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 41.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
