Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
Lost Child
Scored from 45 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Fern (Leven Rambin), an Army veteran, returns to the southern Missouri Ozarks town where she grew up, hoping to find the younger brother she left behind and to settle what is left of her family's property. In the woods near the house she finds Cecil, a half-feral boy of about eight living alone, and takes him in while a caseworker, Mike, tries to trace where he came from. Local people recognise the child as a 'tatterdemalion', a figure from regional folklore said to attach itself to a household and drain the life from whoever shelters it, and Fern's health and luck begin to turn. Ramaa Mosley's drama sets the folk legend against rural poverty, addiction and Fern's own unfinished business at home.
Released in 2017, Lost Child is a drama, horror and mystery film. It was made in the United States.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 10 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 45 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 46 reviewers with at least two reviews 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 Lost Child 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 45.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
