Film · 2013 · Films · 2010s
Captain Phillips
Scored from 607 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A U.S. cargo ship is hijacked off the coast of Somalia by armed Somali pirates. Captain Richard Phillips attempts to negotiate with the pirates while the crew hides below deck. As the situation escalates, a tense standoff develops with U.S. naval forces mobilizing to respond.
Released in 2013, Captain Phillips is a drama, thriller and crime film. It runs 2h 14m and carries a PG-13 certificate. Paul Greengrass directed it, with Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi and Michael Chernus in the cast. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 607 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 631 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 5,500 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Captain Phillips 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 607.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
