Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
Looper
Scored from 730 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In a dystopian future, specialized assassins called "loopers" are hired to kill targets sent back in time. Joe, a young looper, encounters a routine assignment that becomes extraordinary when his target is revealed to be his own older self from thirty years in the future. Forced to confront his future and make an impossible choice, Joe becomes entangled in a dangerous time-travel paradox with far-reaching consequences.
Looper is a 2012 science fiction, thriller and crime film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt. The runtime is 118 minutes. Its certificate is R. Rian Johnson directed it. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 10,178 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 730 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 750 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 Looper 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 730.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
