Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
Nocturnal Animals
Scored from 777 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A woman receives a manuscript from her estranged ex-husband, a novel that draws her into a dark story of revenge. The narrative alternates between her present-day encounters with the author and the fictional tale of a man whose family is brutally attacked during a desert drive, spurring him to seek vengeance. The film explores themes of regret, lost love, and the blurred lines between fiction and reality.
Tom Ford directed Nocturnal Animals, a drama and thriller film from 2016. It runs 1h 56m and carries an R certificate. It stars Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon. It was made in the United States.
777 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 800 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,165 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Nocturnal Animals 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 777.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
