Film · 2013 · Films · 2010s
Elysium
Scored from 790 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In 2154, Earth is overpopulated and impoverished while the wealthy inhabit Elysium, a luxurious orbital space station. Max, a factory worker, is exposed to lethal radiation and has only days to live. He must reach Elysium, where advanced medical technology can save him, triggering a conflict with the station's ruthless enforcement officer.
Elysium is a 2013 science fiction, action and thriller film directed by Neill Blomkamp. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is R. It runs 1h 49m. Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley head the billed cast.
The calibrated figure is built from 790 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 818 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 5,939 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 Elysium 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 790.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
