Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Serenity
Scored from 528 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A fishing boat captain on a remote island encounters a mysterious woman from his past who entangles him in a dangerous scheme. As he becomes caught between his simple life and her elaborate plot, nothing is quite as it seems. The film unfolds as a twisty neo-noir mystery with shocking revelations.
Steven Knight directed Serenity, a thriller, mystery and neo-noir film from 2019. It stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Diane Lane. It runs 1h 46m. It is rated PG-13. It was made in the United States.
528 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 549 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 249 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Serenity 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 528.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
