Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
Climax
Scored from 425 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A French dance troupe's overnight rehearsal descends into chaos and horror when their sangria is spiked with LSD. What begins as artistic collaboration transforms into a nightmarish descent as the dancers experience increasingly disturbing psychological and physical effects.
Gaspar Noé directed Climax, a horror, thriller and drama film from 2018. Its listed language is French. It runs 1h 36m and carries an NR certificate. It stars Kiddy Smile, Souheila Yacoubi and Claude Forel. It was made in France.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 140 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 425 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 439 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them.
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 Climax 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 425.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
