Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Scored from 325 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Taika Waititi's adaptation of Barry Crump's novel Wild Pork and Watercress sends Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison), a rap-obsessed city kid with a thick child-welfare file, to a last-chance foster placement on a farm at the edge of the New Zealand bush. His new aunt Bella takes to him at once; her husband Hec (Sam Neill), a taciturn bushman who can barely read, does not. Circumstances leave the two of them alone in the wilderness with their dogs and no intention of coming back, while a manhunt builds behind them, driven by an implacable welfare officer named Paula and inflated into a national story. It works as deadpan comedy and survival adventure at once, divided into titled chapters.
Released in 2016, Hunt for the Wilderpeople is an adventure, comedy and drama film. It was made in New Zealand. It runs 1h 41m. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy. It is rated PG-13.
325 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 336 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 777 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Hunt for the Wilderpeople 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 325.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
