Film · 2011 · Films · 2010s
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Scored from 138 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A skeptical British fisheries scientist is reluctantly recruited by a consultant representing a visionary Yemeni sheikh who dreams of introducing salmon and the sport of fly fishing to the wadis of Yemen. As the seemingly impossible project moves forward with backing from the British government's press office, the scientist and the consultant navigate professional doubts, personal upheavals, and a tentative romance.
Released in 2011, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a comedy, drama and romance film.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 138 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 143 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,343 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 Salmon Fishing in the Yemen 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 138.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
