Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s
On the Count of Three
Scored from 46 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Val shovels mulch at a landscaping supply yard, has just been offered a promotion, and has decided he does not want to be alive for it; Kevin, his oldest friend, is in a psychiatric ward after his own attempt. Val gets him out, produces a pistol, and the two agree to shoot each other by the end of the day — which leaves them one unaccountable afternoon to settle everything they never said. The list runs from Val's girlfriend Natasha and his estranged father to the childhood psychiatrist Kevin has never stopped thinking about. Jerrod Carmichael directs and stars opposite Christopher Abbott in a black comedy that uses the pact as its clock.
On the Count of Three is a 2021 comedy, crime and drama film. The runtime is 86 minutes. It is rated R. It was made in the United States.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them. Only 46 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 53 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 19 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 On the Count of Three 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 · 2020s (7,930 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 46.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
