Film · 2015 · Films · 2010s
Sicario
Scored from 901 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
An idealistic FBI agent is recruited into a covert government task force targeting a Mexican drug lord. As the operation unfolds across the border, she discovers the team's true motives are far more complex and morally ambiguous than initially presented.
Released in 2015, Sicario is a crime, thriller and drama film. It runs 2h 11m. It was directed by Denis Villeneuve. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin head the billed cast. Its certificate is R.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,926 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 901 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 929 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Sicario 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 901.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
