Film · 2024 · Films · 2020s
Flow
Scored from 402 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Gints Zilbalodis's Latvian animated feature follows a solitary black cat living in an abandoned house in a forest, wary of the dogs that roam it. When a flood rises without warning and swallows the landscape, the cat is carried onto a drifting sailboat already occupied by a capybara, a ring-tailed lemur hoarding trinkets, one of the local dogs and a secretarybird — animals that would ordinarily keep well clear of one another. With the water still climbing, they have to work out how to steer and survive together. There is no dialogue and no narration: animated in the open-source program Blender, the film carries the whole story through animal behaviour, sound and camera movement.
Flow (2024) is a film IMDb files under the adventure, animation and family genres. It plays in None (dialogue-free). Its certificate is PG. It runs 1h 25m.
7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 532 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 402 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 425 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 Flow 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 · 2020s (7,930 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 402.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
