Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
Sinister
Scored from 786 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A true-crime writer discovers a box of snuff films documenting brutal murders tied to seemingly unrelated deaths in different families. As he investigates, he uncovers a sinister supernatural force connecting the killings and threatening his own family.
Sinister is a 2012 horror, thriller and crime film starring Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance and James Ransone. Its certificate is R. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Scott Derrickson directed it. It runs 1h 50m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 4,161 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 786 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 817 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Sinister 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 786.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
