Film · 2015 · Films · 2010s
De Palma
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
Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow sit Brian De Palma in front of a camera and let him narrate his own filmography, picture by picture, in order. The documentary is built almost entirely from that single monologue, intercut with clips and stills, as he moves from 1960s counterculture shorts starring a young Robert De Niro through Sisters, Carrie, Dressed to Kill and Blow Out to the studio years of Scarface, The Untouchables and Mission: Impossible. De Palma is blunt about the flops, the fights with actors and executives, the charges of misogyny and Hitchcock plagiarism, and the mechanics of how he builds a set piece.
De Palma (2015) is a film IMDb files under the biography and documentary genres. It was made in the United States. It is rated R. The runtime is 109 minutes.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 65 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 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. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 De Palma 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
