Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Knives Out
Scored from 2,439 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
When wealthy novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead in his mansion, Detective Benoit Blanc and a private investigator arrive to uncover the truth. Suspicion falls on Thrombey's eccentric family members, each with potential motives and secrets. The investigation reveals hidden relationships and long-buried tensions within the household.
Knives Out (2019) is a film IMDb files under the crime, mystery and thriller genres. It runs 2h 10m. It was directed by Rian Johnson. It stars Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas and Chris Evans. It was made in the United States. It is rated PG-13.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 4,173 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 2,439 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 2,575 reviewers with at least two reviews each 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 Knives Out 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 2,439.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
