Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Joker
Scored from 7,197 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Arthur Fleck, a mentally ill aspiring stand-up comedian working as a clown in a decaying Gotham City, is repeatedly beaten down by an indifferent society and a failing social safety net. As his grip on reality slips, a violent incident on a subway sparks a populist movement and sets him on a path toward a new, darker identity.
Todd Phillips directed Joker, a drama, crime and thriller film from 2019. It is rated R. It was made in the United States. The runtime is 122 minutes. It stars Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro and Zazie Beetz.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 8,126 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 7,197 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 7,997 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.
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 Joker 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 7,197.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
