Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
Clerks III
Scored from 193 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
After surviving a heart attack, Quick Stop clerk Randal decides to make a movie about his life working at the convenience store, recruiting Dante, Elias, and Jay and Silent Bob to help him recreate the absurd customer encounters that have defined his existence. As production unfolds, Dante wrestles with lingering grief while the friends confront mortality, regret, and what their decades behind the counter have really meant.
Released in 2022, Clerks III is a comedy and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 193 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 200 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 136 of whom clear the calibration test. 7,929 other films from the 2020s 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 Clerks III 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 193.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
