Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
Mortal Engines
Scored from 964 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In a post-apocalyptic world where cities are massive mobile machines that hunt each other for resources, a young woman from a static settlement is taken aboard a moving city. She discovers a conspiracy involving a powerful ancient weapon and must stop it from being used to reshape civilization.
Mortal Engines is a 2018 science fiction, action and adventure film starring Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan and Hugo Weaving. It runs 2h 8m and carries a PG-13 certificate. Its country of origin is listed as New Zealand. Christian Rivers directed it.
The calibrated figure is built from 964 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 992 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 615 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Mortal Engines 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 964.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
