Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
Song of the Sea
Scored from 150 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Ben, a boy living in a lighthouse on an island off the Irish coast, resents his six-year-old sister Saoirse, who has never spoken a word and whose birth coincided with their mother's disappearance into the sea. When their grandmother takes the children inland to the city, Ben learns that Saoirse is a selkie who can shed a white coat to swim as a seal, and that her song is the one thing that can wake the last of Ireland's faerie folk before the owl-witch Macha turns them to stone. The pair run away with the family sheepdog, trying to reach the shore before Saoirse's strength gives out. A hand-drawn animated fantasy from Tomm Moore and Cartoon Saloon.
Song of the Sea (2014) is a film IMDb files under the adventure, animation and drama genres. Its country of origin is listed as Ireland. It runs 1h 33m and carries a PG certificate.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 357 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 150 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 155 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 Song of the Sea 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 150.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
