Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
In a Valley of Violence
Scored from 183 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A drifter and his loyal dog pass through a near-abandoned New Mexico town on their way to Mexico, only to run afoul of a cocky young bully whose father happens to be the local marshal. When the encounter turns tragic, the drifter's violent past resurfaces and he sets out for revenge against the town's gunmen.
Released in 2016, In a Valley of Violence is an action, drama and western film.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 166 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 183 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 187 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 In a Valley of Violence 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 183.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
