Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s
Mars Express
Scored from 50 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Set in 2200, Jérémie Périn's French animated sci-fi noir follows Aline Ruby, a private investigator on Mars, and her partner Carlos Rivera, a robot carrying the uploaded memories of her human partner, who was killed on the job. Hired to find Jun Chow, a runaway cybernetics student who has been jailbreaking robots to strip out the safeguards that constrain them, they work the trail from the domed capital of Noctis outward into a conspiracy over machine autonomy. Aline runs the case while holding on to a fragile sobriety, and every lead pushes the pair toward the question of what a manufactured mind is owed. The film is drawn in a flat, hand-drawn style and made for adults.
Released in 2023, Mars Express is an action, animation and mystery film. Its country of origin is listed as France. Its listed language is French. The runtime is 88 minutes.
Only 50 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 51 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 24 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 Mars Express 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 50.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
