Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Scored from 765 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York with a briefcase containing magical creatures. When several creatures escape, he must recover them while navigating conflicts within the magical community and uncovering a darker conspiracy.
Released in 2016, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a fantasy, adventure and comedy film. Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston and Dan Fogler head the billed cast. The runtime is 132 minutes. David Yates directed it. Its certificate is PG-13. Its country of origin is listed as the United States and the United Kingdom.
The calibrated figure is built from 765 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 795 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,799 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 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 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 765.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
