Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
Gerald's Game
Scored from 371 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
When a couples retreat to a remote lake house takes a dark turn, Jessie is left handcuffed to a bed after her husband Gerald suddenly dies. Isolated and with no hope of rescue, she must confront terrifying visions and long-buried trauma from her past in order to survive.
Released in 2017, Gerald's Game is a drama, horror and thriller film.
The calibrated figure is built from 371 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 380 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Gerald's Game 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 371.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
