Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s
Malignant
Scored from 1,740 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A woman plagued by disturbing visions discovers a horrifying connection to a series of brutal murders. As she investigates the mysterious psychic link, she must uncover the dark truth behind her nightmares before the killer strikes again.
Malignant is a 2021 horror, thriller and mystery film starring Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson and George Young. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. James Wan directed it. The runtime is 111 minutes. Its certificate is PG-13.
The calibrated figure is built from 1,740 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,802 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 729 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Malignant 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 · 2020s (7,930 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 1,740.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
