Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
Death Note
Scored from 719 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A high school student discovers a supernatural notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it. He uses the Death Note to become a vigilante executioner, eliminating criminals and reshaping society, but a mysterious detective known as L begins a dangerous investigation to stop him.
Adam Wingard directed Death Note, a thriller, crime and supernatural film from 2017. It was made in the United States. It runs 1h 41m. It is rated PG-13. It stars Nat Wolff, Lakeith Stanfield and Margaret Qualley.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. 719 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 746 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 478 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Death Note 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 719.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
