Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
Kubo and the Two Strings
Scored from 287 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In ancient Japan, a young boy named Kubo who can bring origami to life with his shamisen must flee when vengeful spirits from his past come for him. Joined by a stern Monkey and a forgetful Beetle, he sets out to find his late samurai father's magical armor and confront the celestial family that wants to claim him.
Released in 2016, Kubo and the Two Strings is an action, adventure and animation film.
The calibrated figure is built from 287 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 294 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,390 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Kubo and the Two Strings 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 287.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
