Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Scored from 662 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A six-part anthology of Old West tales from Joel and Ethan Coen, each a self-contained story bound together as chapters in a storybook. The vignettes range from a singing gunslinger and a hapless bank robber to a traveling impresario, a grizzled prospector, a wagon train courtship, and a stagecoach ride, blending dark comedy, violence, and meditations on mortality.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and musical genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 662 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 685 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 418 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them.
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 Ballad of Buster Scruggs 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 662.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
