Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s
Silent Night
Scored from 272 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
After his young son is killed in a gang crossfire on Christmas Eve, a grieving father loses his voice from a throat wound and spends the following year training and arming himself for revenge. The John Woo-directed action film unfolds almost entirely without dialogue as he sets out to hunt down those responsible.
Released in 2023, Silent Night is an action, crime and drama film.
7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 272 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 276 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 416 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Silent Night 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 · 2020s (7,930 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 272.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
