Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
Nightcrawler
Scored from 939 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A freelance videographer with dark ambitions infiltrates the world of Los Angeles crime journalism, selling footage of accidents and crimes to local news stations. As Lou Bloom becomes increasingly obsessed with capturing sensational footage, he blurs the line between observer and participant in the crimes he documents.
Nightcrawler (2014) is a film IMDb files under the crime, drama and thriller genres. It was made in the United States. Dan Gilroy directed it, with Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo and Riz Ahmed in the cast. It is rated R. The runtime is 117 minutes.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 4,209 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 939 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 966 reviewers with at least two reviews each 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 Nightcrawler 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 939.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
