Film · 2015 · Films · 2010s
Pixels
Scored from 458 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
When aliens intercept 1980s arcade game broadcasts from Earth, they interpret them as a declaration of war and attack using video game characters as weapons. A former arcade champion and his childhood friends must save humanity by competing against the aliens in real-world video game battles.
Chris Columbus directed Pixels, an action, comedy and science fiction film from 2015. It stars Adam Sandler, Kevin James and Michelle Monaghan. Its comedy subtype is Action Comedy. The runtime is 110 minutes. It was made in the United States. It is rated PG-13.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,991 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 458 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 478 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Pixels 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 458.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
