Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
Downsizing
Scored from 831 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A middle-class man undergoes a procedure to be miniaturized to 5 inches tall and relocates to a small-scale community designed for downsized people, hoping to achieve financial security and a simpler lifestyle. As he explores this new world, he discovers unexpected challenges and the true costs of the downsizing phenomenon.
Released in 2017, Downsizing is a comedy, drama and science fiction film. Alexander Payne directed it, with Matt Dillon, Christoph Waltz and Hong Chau in the cast. It runs 2h 15m and carries an R certificate. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 831 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 862 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 828 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 Downsizing 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 831.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
