Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
Murder on the Orient Express
Scored from 854 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
On a luxury train traveling across Europe, a wealthy businessman is found murdered in his locked cabin. A renowned detective must navigate through a complex web of suspects and motives as the train becomes snowbound, forcing him to solve the case before the journey ends.
Released in 2017, Murder on the Orient Express is a crime, drama and mystery film. Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp and Judi Dench head the billed cast. It runs 1h 54m and carries a PG-13 certificate. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom and the United States. Kenneth Branagh directed it.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 854 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 894 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,041 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 Murder on the Orient 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 · 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 854.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
