Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
Life of Pi
Scored from 837 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A young man named Pi survives a devastating shipwreck and finds himself stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with Richard Parker, a Bengal tiger. Over 227 days at sea, Pi relies on his faith, ingenuity, and will to survive while forming an unexpected bond with his dangerous companion.
Life of Pi is a 2012 adventure, drama and fantasy film. It stars Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan and Tabu. It is rated PG. It was directed by Ang Lee. The runtime is 127 minutes. It was made in the United States.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 7,383 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 837 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 881 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 Life of Pi 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 837.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
