Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
The 5th Wave
Scored from 405 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
After waves of devastating alien attacks wipe out most of humanity, teenager Cassie Sullivan is separated from her younger brother and must survive on her own in a hostile landscape. As she fights to find him, she discovers that the invaders have infiltrated human ranks, forcing her to question who she can trust while a group of recruited child soldiers is trained for the next wave.
The 5th Wave (2016) is a film IMDb files under the action, adventure and science-fiction genres.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 405 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 420 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 The 5th Wave 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 405.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
