Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
Cloud Atlas
Scored from 843 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
An epic narrative spanning six interconnected stories across centuries, from a 19th-century ship crossing the Pacific to a post-apocalyptic future, exploring how the actions and choices of individuals ripple across time. The film weaves together tales of love, betrayal, survival, and revolution as the same souls encounter each other across vastly different eras and worlds.
Cloud Atlas is a 2012 science fiction, drama and adventure film directed by Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski. Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Jim Broadbent head the billed cast. Its country of origin is listed as the United States and the United Kingdom. Its certificate is R. It runs 2h 52m.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 843 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 883 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 5,433 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 Cloud Atlas 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 843.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
