Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
Hostiles
Scored from 475 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In 1890s Montana, a U.S. Army cavalry officer is ordered to escort a Cheyenne tribe back to their native lands. As he guides the group across dangerous territory, he confronts the violent history of westward expansion and his own prejudices toward Native Americans.
Scott Cooper directed Hostiles, a western and drama film from 2017. It was made in the United States. It is rated R. It stars Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike and Wes Studi. The runtime is 134 minutes.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 533 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 475 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 493 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Hostiles 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 475.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
