Film · 2015 · Films · 2010s
Meru
Scored from 37 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
The Shark's Fin, a granite blade topping out around 6,300 metres on Meru in the Indian Himalaya, had defeated every expedition that tried it: too technical for pure alpinists, too high and remote for big-wall specialists. In 2008 Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk spent twenty days on the route, pinned in a hanging portaledge through a storm, and turned back about a hundred metres below the top. The documentary then follows them home, where Ozturk is badly injured in a skiing accident and Chin is caught in an avalanche, before the three weigh going back in 2011 with those injuries barely healed. Directed by Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, it is assembled largely from footage the climbers shot themselves, with Jon Krakauer supplying context.
Meru is a 2015 adventure, documentary and sport film. It runs 1h 22m. It was made in the United States. It is rated R.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 91 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. Only 37 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 40 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 Meru 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 37.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
