Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Scored from 37 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall), a Yorkshire grocery deliveryman, follows his father and uncle onto the Home Office list of official executioners in the 1930s and comes to regard hanging as a craft: timed to the second and carried out with what he considers the dignity owed to the condemned. He shares almost nothing of the work with his wife Annie (Juliet Stevenson), travelling the country under an assumed name while the two of them run a pub. After the war he is flown to occupied Germany to execute convicted Nazis, and the press turns an anonymous tradesman into a celebrity, which sits badly against his private code. Adrian Shergold's British drama traces that career alongside his friendship with a pub regular known as Tish.
Released in 2005, Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman is a biography, crime and drama film. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. Its certificate is R. It runs 1h 43m.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 37 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 37 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 278 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 Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman 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 · 2000s (7,847 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 37.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
