Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
Manchester by the Sea
Scored from 858 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Lee Chandler, a solitary handyman living in Boston, returns to his hometown of Manchester-by-the-Sea when his older brother dies unexpectedly. He must confront his past and take responsibility for raising his teenage nephew, navigating grief and family relationships in a small New England town.
Kenneth Lonergan directed Manchester by the Sea, a drama film from 2016. It stars Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams and Kyle Chandler. The runtime is 137 minutes. It is rated R. It was made in the United States.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,738 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. 858 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 883 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 Manchester by the Sea 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 858.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
