Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
Hell or High Water
Scored from 511 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Toby Howard (Chris Pine), a divorced West Texas father with nothing left, and his volatile ex-convict brother Tanner (Ben Foster) work through a string of small Texas Midlands Bank branches at opening time, taking only loose bills from the drawers. The money is meant to clear a reverse mortgage before the bank forecloses on their late mother's ranch, land that has just proved to sit on oil. Marcus Hamilton (Jeff Bridges), a Texas Ranger weeks from an unwanted retirement, and his partner Alberto Parker (Gil Birmingham) read the pattern of the robberies and follow it across a country of dying towns and debt-relief billboards. David Mackenzie directs Taylor Sheridan's script as a modern Western about foreclosure and family.
Hell or High Water (2016) is a film IMDb files under the crime, drama and thriller genres. It was made in the United States. It is rated R. The runtime is 125 minutes. It stars Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster. It was directed by David Mackenzie.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,687 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 511 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 527 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them.
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 Hell or High Water 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 511.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
