Film · 2011 · Films · 2010s
Drive
Scored from 1,260 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A skilled Hollywood stunt driver moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. When he becomes emotionally involved with his neighbor and her young son, he agrees to help her estranged husband escape a dangerous criminal debt, drawing himself into a violent underworld of organized crime.
Released in 2011, Drive is a neo-noir, crime and thriller film. Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan and Bryan Cranston head the billed cast. Its certificate is R. It runs 1h 40m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Nicolas Winding Refn directed it.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 1,260 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,324 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 11,230 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 Drive 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 1,260.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
