Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
Silence
Scored from 439 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In 17th century Japan, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to find their missing mentor and continue Christian missionary work, only to face a brutal government crackdown systematically persecuting believers and demanding apostasy.
Silence is a 2016 drama, historical and thriller film starring Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver and Liam Neeson. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is R. Martin Scorsese directed it. It runs 2h 41m.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 776 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 439 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 458 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 Silence 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 439.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
