Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
Force Majeure
Scored from 156 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A Swedish family on a ski vacation in the French Alps is shaken when a controlled avalanche appears to threaten their resort restaurant. The father's instinctive reaction in that moment forces his wife and children to question his role as protector, and the rest of the trip becomes an uncomfortable reckoning with masculinity, marriage, and self-image.
Released in 2014, Force Majeure is a comedy and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 156 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 160 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 351 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Force Majeure 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 156.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
