Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
Safety Not Guaranteed
Scored from 303 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Three magazine staffers investigate a classified ad seeking a partner for time travel, with skeptical intern Darius going undercover to befriend the eccentric grocery clerk who placed it. As she gets drawn into his strange world and preparations, she begins to question whether he is delusional or telling the truth.
Safety Not Guaranteed is a 2012 adventure, comedy and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 303 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 313 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,315 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 Safety Not Guaranteed 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 303.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
