Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
Ernest & Celestine
Scored from 57 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Celestine is an orphan mouse in an underground city where every young rodent is trained to be a dentist and sent above ground at night to steal the milk teeth of bear cubs. Frightened of the bears in her orphanage's bedtime stories and far more interested in drawing than dentistry, she ends up in a garbage bin, where she is found by Ernest, a large, hungry bear who busks for coins and lives alone in the woods. The two strike a bargain and then a friendship that both their societies treat as unnatural, and the authorities of each world come after them. Adapted from Gabrielle Vincent's picture books with a screenplay by Daniel Pennac, the film is hand-drawn in watercolour.
Released in 2012, Ernest & Celestine is an adventure, animation and comedy film. It runs 1h 21m and carries a PG certificate. Its listed language is French. It was made in Belgium.
Only 57 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 58 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 230 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Ernest & Celestine 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 57.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
