Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Klaus
Scored from 629 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Jesper Johanssen, the idle son of the Royal Postmaster General, is cut off from the family money and posted to Smeerensburg, a frozen island town at the top of the map, with a year to process six thousand letters or forfeit his inheritance. Nobody there writes to anybody: the town's two clans, the Krums and the Ellingboes, have kept a feud running for generations. Then Jesper finds Klaus, a huge, near-silent woodsman living alone outside town in a cabin stacked with handmade toys, and works out that children who receive them will write letters. Sergio Pablos's hand-drawn animated feature, Netflix's first, voices the pair with Jason Schwartzman and J.K. Simmons, with Rashida Jones as the town's out-of-work teacher.
Klaus is a 2019 animation, comedy and family film directed by Sergio Pablos. Its certificate is PG. It runs 1h 36m. Its country of origin is listed as Spain. J.K. Simmons, Rashida Jones and Jason Schwartzman head the billed cast. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 429 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 629 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 682 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 Klaus 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 629.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
