Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
Hundreds of Beavers
Scored from 108 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Mike Cheslik's black-and-white slapstick comedy is told almost entirely without dialogue, in the style of a live-action cartoon. Jean Kayak, a nineteenth-century Great Lakes applejack seller played by Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, loses his orchard and distillery to beavers and is left to survive a frozen winter with nothing. Starving and inept, he teaches himself to trap, working up from rabbits to wolves and raccoons and finally to the beavers themselves, all played by performers in bulky mascot suits. To win the hand of the trading post merchant's daughter he must deliver an enormous quota of pelts, and the film escalates into video-game-like sequences of traps, chases and contraptions.
Hundreds of Beavers (2022) is a film IMDb files under the action, adventure and comedy genres. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 48m. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy. Its certificate is Not Rated.
7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 72 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 108 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 114 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Hundreds of Beavers 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 · 2020s (7,930 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 108.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
