Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s
The Covenant
Scored from 494 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
During the war in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Sergeant John Kinley and his Afghan interpreter Ahmed are ambushed by the Taliban. After Ahmed risks his life to carry the wounded Kinley across hostile terrain to safety, Kinley returns stateside only to learn that Ahmed and his family have been left behind and hunted. Bound by a debt of honor, Kinley travels back into Afghanistan to extract them.
The Covenant (2023) is a film IMDb files under the action, drama and thriller genres.
494 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 506 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 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 Covenant 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 494.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
