Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
Spoiler Alert
Scored from 43 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Michael Ausiello, a TV Guide writer whose life runs on episode recaps and a Smurf collection, meets photographer Kit Cowan at a New York bar and, after a self-conscious start, builds a life with him. The film follows fourteen years of the relationship: Michael's difficulty letting himself be seen, Kit's overdue coming out to his parents Bob and Marilyn in small-town Pennsylvania, a long rough patch, and then a cancer diagnosis that pulls all of them back together. Michael narrates stretches of his own life as an eighties sitcom, laugh track and childhood living-room set included. Michael Showalter's romantic dramedy adapts Ausiello's memoir, with Jim Parsons, Ben Aldridge, and Sally Field.
Spoiler Alert is a 2022 comedy, drama and romance film. It is rated PG-13. The runtime is 112 minutes. It was made in the United States.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 68 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 43 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 47 reviewers with at least two reviews 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 Spoiler Alert 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 43.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
