Film · 2011 · Films · 2010s
Monsieur Lazhar
Scored from 57 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Philippe Falardeau's Quebec drama, adapted from Évelyne de la Chenelière's play, begins when a Montreal elementary school teacher hangs herself in her classroom and is found by one of her pupils. Bachir Lazhar (Mohamed Fellag), an Algerian immigrant in his fifties awaiting a refugee hearing, presents himself at the school and is hired to take over the class, though his formal manner and Balzac dictations belong to an older idea of teaching. The board's counsellors keep the children's grief at arm's length, while Lazhar lets them speak about it, particularly the guilt-ridden Simon and the composed Alice (Sophie Nélisse). He is concealing losses of his own, and his footing at the school is less secure than it appears.
Monsieur Lazhar (2011) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and drama genres. Its listed language is French. It runs 1h 34m and carries a PG certificate. It was made in Canada.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 424 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. Only 57 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 57 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 Monsieur Lazhar 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 57.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
