Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
Compliance
Scored from 247 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
At a fast-food restaurant, a manager receives a phone call from a man claiming to be a police officer who accuses a young female employee of theft. Following the caller's increasingly invasive instructions, the staff subject the employee to a humiliating ordeal, illustrating how ordinary people can comply with authority even when its demands are clearly wrong. Based on a true story.
Compliance (2012) is a film IMDb files under the crime, drama and thriller genres.
The calibrated figure is built from 247 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 251 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,037 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 Compliance 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 247.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
