Film · 2011 · Films · 2010s
Shame
Scored from 424 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Brandon, a successful New York businessman, leads a double life governed by compulsive sexual behavior. His carefully controlled existence is disrupted when his estranged sister Claire unexpectedly moves into his apartment. As their troubled relationship intensifies, Brandon is forced to confront his emotional isolation and destructive patterns.
Shame is a 2011 drama and romance film directed by Steve McQueen. Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan and James Badge Dale head the billed cast. Its certificate is NC-17. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. It runs 1h 41m.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 424 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 436 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,941 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 Shame 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 424.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
