Film · 2010 · Films · 2010s
Monsters
Scored from 455 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
After a NASA space probe crashes in Mexico, an alien infestation spreads across the U.S.-Mexico border region. A photojournalist is tasked with escorting a young woman through the quarantined, monster-infested zone back to the United States.
Monsters is a 2010 science fiction, horror and drama film starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Whitney Able and Scoot McNairy. It runs 1h 34m and carries an R certificate. Gareth Edwards directed it. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom and the United States.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 455 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 469 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Monsters 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 455.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
