Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
Pearl
Scored from 507 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Set during World War I, Pearl follows a young woman living on a remote farmstead who harbors dark desires and a twisted sense of ambition. As her isolation and frustrations mount, she spirals into increasingly disturbing behavior.
Pearl is a 2022 horror, thriller and drama film starring Mia Goth, David Corenswet and Tandi Wright. The runtime is 103 minutes. Ti West directed it. Its certificate is R. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 510 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 507 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 515 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Pearl 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 507.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
