Film · 2025 · Films · 2020s
The Amateur
Scored from 363 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
After his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a brilliant but introverted CIA cryptographer and decoder blackmails his reluctant superiors into training him for the field so he can hunt down those responsible. Out of his depth physically but relying on his analytical mind and improvised tactics, he travels across Europe to track each perpetrator while uncovering layers of agency complicity.
Released in 2025, The Amateur is an action and thriller film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 920 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 363 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 378 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Amateur 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 363.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
