Film · 2011 · Films · 2010s
Snowtown
Scored from 121 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In a bleak suburb of Adelaide, Australia, a vulnerable teenage boy named Jamie falls under the influence of his mother's charismatic new boyfriend, John Bunting. As John ingratiates himself with the family and community by railing against perceived deviants, Jamie is gradually drawn into a dark circle of vigilantism and violence. Based on the true story of Australia's notorious 'bodies in barrels' murders.
Snowtown (2011) is a film IMDb files under the biography, crime and drama genres.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. 121 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 123 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Snowtown 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 121.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
