Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
Extinction
Scored from 766 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A family begins experiencing strange visions and encounters mysterious signals as they discover evidence of an impending alien invasion. They must work together to protect themselves and uncover the truth behind the inexplicable phenomena occurring around them.
Released in 2018, Extinction is a science fiction, thriller and action film. Its certificate is PG-13. Ben Young directed it, with Michael Peña, Lizzy Caplan and David Morse in the cast. It runs 1h 50m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 196 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 766 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 804 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Extinction 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 766.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
