Film · 2010 · Films · 2010s
Incendies
Scored from 350 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Denis Villeneuve's French-language drama, adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's play, opens in Montreal as twins Jeanne and Simon Marwan hear their mother Nawal's will read out by her employer, the notary Jean Lebel. It leaves each of them a letter to deliver: one to the father they were told had died, one to a brother they never knew existed, with no headstone or inheritance until both are handed over. Jeanne travels to her mother's unnamed Middle Eastern homeland to retrace her life, while flashbacks follow the young Nawal through a sectarian civil war that begins for her when her brothers kill her Muslim lover.
Released in 2010, Incendies is a drama, mystery and war film. Its listed language is French. It is rated R. It was made in Canada. The runtime is 131 minutes.
350 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 371 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,133 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 Incendies 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 350.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
