Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
It Comes at Night
Scored from 709 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A family has retreated to an isolated house to escape a mysterious plague spreading through the country. When a stranger arrives at their door seeking shelter, the family must decide whether to let him in, creating escalating tensions and paranoia within their fragile sanctuary.
Released in 2017, It Comes at Night is a horror, thriller and drama film. The runtime is 91 minutes. It was directed by Trey Edward Shults. Joel Edgerton, Carmen Ejogo and Christopher Abbott head the billed cast. Its certificate is R. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 709 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 737 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 955 of whom clear the calibration test. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 It Comes at Night 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 709.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
