Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s
Frailty
Scored from 398 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A man walks into an FBI office claiming his brother is the 'God's Hand' serial killer, and recounts their childhood in rural Texas, where their devout father announced that an angel had tasked the family with destroying demons disguised as ordinary people. As the father begins abducting and killing supposed demons with an axe, the two young brothers grapple with whether their dad is a holy warrior or a murderous madman.
Frailty is a 2001 crime, drama and thriller film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,395 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 398 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 411 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Frailty 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 · 2000s (7,847 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 398.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
