Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
Dominion
Scored from 36 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
An Australian documentary directed by Chris Delforce that surveys the treatment of animals in industrial agriculture, using drone flights, hidden cameras and handheld footage shot inside piggeries, hatcheries, feedlots, dairies, abattoirs and hunting and fur operations, most of them in Australia. It is organised by industry — pigs, chickens, cattle, sheep, fish — and sets standard, legal husbandry and slaughter practice against the marketing language used to describe it. There is no on-screen presenter; narration is divided among Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Sia, Kat Von D and Sadie Sink. A follow-up to Delforce's 2014 film Lucent, it was released in 2018 and made freely available online by its makers.
Dominion (2018) is a film IMDb files under the documentary genre. Its country of origin is listed as Australia. It runs 2h.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 36 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 42 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1 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 Dominion 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 36.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
