Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s
The Alpinist
Scored from 61 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
This documentary follows Marc-André Leclerc, a climber in his early twenties from Squamish, British Columbia, who solos long routes of rock, ice and snow in the mountains without ropes, sponsors or an audience. Directors Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen find him almost impossible to film: he owns no car and no phone, lives in a stairwell apartment with his partner Brette Harrington, and keeps disappearing to Patagonia and the Canadian Rockies to climb alone rather than perform for a crew. Interviews with Alex Honnold, Reinhold Messner and Leclerc's mother set his obscure, self-effacing alpinism against the celebrity of modern free soloing.
The Alpinist (2021) is a film IMDb files under the biography, documentary and sport genres. It is rated PG-13. It was made in the United States. The runtime is 100 minutes.
Only 61 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 66 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 44 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Alpinist 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 61.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
