Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
Lion
Scored from 495 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Garth Davis's drama, adapted from Saroo Brierley's memoir A Long Way Home, begins in 1986 in Khandwa, India, where five-year-old Saroo tags along with his older brother Guddu on a night's work and falls asleep alone on a stationary train. The carriage carries him some 1,600 kilometres to Calcutta, where he speaks no Bengali and cannot name his home town; after weeks on the streets and a spell in an orphanage he is adopted by Sue and John Brierley and raised in Hobart, Tasmania. Twenty-five years later the grown Saroo, played by Dev Patel, is jolted by a memory at a student dinner and starts trying to find his village by scanning rail lines on Google Earth, hiding the search from the family that raised him.
Lion is a 2016 drama and biography film. It stars Dev Patel, Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett. It is rated PG-13. It was directed by Garth Davis. The runtime is 118 minutes. It was made in Australia.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. 495 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 531 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,181 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Lion 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 495.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
