Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
Phantom Thread
Scored from 563 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In 1950s London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock meets Alma, a young woman who becomes his muse and lover. As their relationship deepens, Alma begins to influence his life and work in unexpected ways, challenging his carefully controlled artistic vision and domestic existence.
Phantom Thread is a 2017 drama and romance film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Its certificate is R. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. It runs 2h 10m. Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps and Lesley Manville head the billed cast.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 563 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 575 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 652 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Phantom Thread 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 563.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
