Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Scored from 504 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A skilled truck driver loses his job and turns to crime out of desperation. After a violent incident, he's imprisoned and forced to navigate brutal prison politics while maintaining his principles and protecting those he loves.
Released in 2017, Brawl in Cell Block 99 is an action, crime and drama film. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. S. Craig Zahler directed it, with Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter and Don Johnson in the cast. Its certificate is R. It runs 2h 12m.
The calibrated figure is built from 504 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 525 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 350 of whom clear the calibration test. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Brawl in Cell Block 99 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 504.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
