Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
The Contractor
Scored from 288 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A discharged Special Forces sergeant, burdened by debt and stripped of his pension, signs on with a private contracting outfit run by a former comrade. What begins as a covert mission in Berlin to take out a suspected bioweapons threat unravels into a betrayal that leaves him hunted and fighting to get home to his family.
Released in 2022, The Contractor is an action, drama and thriller film.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them. 288 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 291 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 143 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Contractor 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 288.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
