Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
Custody
Scored from 30 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 family court hearing in France, Miriam Besson and her estranged husband Antoine put opposing cases to the judge: she and their eleven-year-old son Julien describe a violent man they are hiding from, while Antoine presents himself as a father being cut out of his child's life. The judge grants shared custody, and Julien is handed over for alternate weekends with a father he does not want to see. Forced into the car with Antoine, the boy lies about where his mother and older sister now live and becomes the instrument his father uses to find them. Xavier Legrand's first feature is a domestic-abuse drama built with the mechanics of a thriller, expanding his short film Just Before Losing Everything.
Custody is a 2017 drama and thriller film. It was made in France. Its listed language is French. The runtime is 93 minutes.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 21 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 30 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 30 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
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 Custody 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 30.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
