Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
Red Sparrow
Scored from 839 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A Russian ballet prima ballerina's career is ended by an on-stage injury. Coerced by the FSB, she is forced into a secret intelligence service training program called the Sparrow School, where she is trained in seduction and espionage. She is deployed to seduce and infiltrate a CIA officer to steal classified information.
Red Sparrow (2018) is a film IMDb files under the spy thriller, drama and crime genres. It runs 2h 20m. It is rated R. Francis Lawrence directed it, with Jennifer Lawrence, Matt Damon and Charlotte Rampling in the cast. It was made in the United States.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 795 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 839 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 861 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Red Sparrow 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 839.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
