Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
Life
Scored from 1,094 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A team of astronauts aboard the International Space Station discovers a rapidly evolving extraterrestrial organism from a Mars soil sample. As the creature grows more intelligent and dangerous, the crew must find a way to contain and stop the alien life form before it reaches Earth.
Life is a 2017 science fiction, horror and thriller film directed by Daniel Espinosa. It runs 1h 44m and carries an R certificate. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds and Rebecca Ferguson head the billed cast.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,447 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 1,094 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,115 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 Life 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 1,094.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
