Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Official Secrets
Scored from 226 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In early 2003, Katharine Gun, a Mandarin translator at GCHQ in Cheltenham, receives a classified NSA memo requesting British help in bugging the UN Security Council delegations whose votes could authorise war in Iraq. She leaks it through an anti-war contact to Martin Bright at The Observer, where the paper struggles to verify a document it cannot publicly source. Charged under the Official Secrets Act, Gun is defended by human-rights lawyer Ben Emmerson while her Turkish-Kurdish husband's immigration status is used as leverage against her. Gavin Hood's fact-based drama stars Keira Knightley, with Matt Smith, Matthew Goode and Ralph Fiennes.
Official Secrets is a 2019 biography, crime and drama film. The runtime is 112 minutes. It is rated R. It was made in the United Kingdom.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 163 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 226 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 235 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them.
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 Official Secrets 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 226.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
