Film · 2010 · Films · 2010s
Restrepo
Scored from 62 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's documentary embeds with Second Platoon, Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade through a fifteen-month deployment to Afghanistan's Korengal Valley in 2007–08. Under Captain Dan Kearney the men cut a new outpost into a ridgeline above the road and name it OP Restrepo after Juan 'Doc' Restrepo, the platoon medic killed weeks into the tour. The directors filmed with the platoon through repeated firefights and cut that footage against interviews recorded in Italy once the men were home. There are no generals, analysts or strategy maps here, only the valley and the soldiers holding it.
Released in 2010, Restrepo is a biography, documentary and history film. It was made in the United States. It runs 1h 33m. It is rated R.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. Only 62 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 63 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 969 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Restrepo 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 62.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
