Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
Close
Scored from 117 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Léo and Rémi are thirteen-year-old best friends in rural Belgium, inseparable through a summer of racing bicycles between the rows of Léo's family's dahlia farm. When they start secondary school, classmates ask whether the two are a couple, and Léo, embarrassed, begins to pull away — taking up ice hockey, sitting elsewhere, keeping a visible distance. Rémi, hurt and baffled by a rejection nobody will explain to him, pushes back. Lukas Dhont's Dutch-language drama follows that retreat and what it costs, with Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele as the boys and Émilie Dequenne as Rémi's mother.
Close is a 2022 drama film. Its certificate is PG-13. Its country of origin is listed as Belgium. It runs 1h 47m. It plays in French.
The calibrated figure is built from 117 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 124 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 75 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Close 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 117.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
