Film · 2020 · Films · 2020s
Jasper Mall
Scored from 41 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Filmed across roughly a year, this observational documentary stays inside a half-empty shopping mall in Jasper, Alabama, a small former coal town. Its central figure is Mike McClelland, the mall's manager and a onetime high school basketball coach, who changes the bulbs, waters the plants, unlocks the doors each morning and knows every remaining tenant by name. Around him are the regulars: retirees who meet daily on the benches, a florist, teenagers with nowhere else to be, and shop owners weighing whether to renew a lease. Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb directed, letting the emptying storefronts and the passing calendar carry the film.
Jasper Mall (2020) is a film IMDb files under the documentary genre. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1 of whom clear the calibration test. Only 41 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 46 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
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 Jasper Mall 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 41.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
