Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s
Thanksgiving
Scored from 446 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A year after a Black Friday riot turns deadly at a Plymouth, Massachusetts big-box store, an axe-wielding killer dressed as Pilgrim John Carver begins targeting those responsible. As bodies pile up around the small town, a high school student and her friends race to uncover the murderer's identity before they end up on his Thanksgiving dinner table.
Thanksgiving is a 2023 horror, mystery and thriller film.
The calibrated figure is built from 446 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 482 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 578 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Thanksgiving 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 446.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
