Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
Deepwater Horizon
Scored from 310 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Based on the 2010 disaster, oil rig workers aboard BP's Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico face a catastrophic blowout after corporate pressure leads to safety shortcuts. Chief electronics technician Mike Williams and his crewmates fight to survive the resulting explosions and fires as the rig is engulfed in flames.
Deepwater Horizon is a 2016 action, drama and history film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,136 of whom clear the calibration test. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 310 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 315 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Deepwater Horizon 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 310.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
