Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
The Fool
Scored from 37 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Dima Nikitin is a junior plumber in a provincial Russian town, studying construction engineering at night and sharing a cramped flat with his parents, wife and son. Called out after hours to a burst pipe in a decaying nine-storey workers' dormitory, he traces a crack running the full height of the building and works out that it will come down within a day with more than eight hundred residents inside. He crashes the mayor's birthday party to demand an evacuation and finds the town's officials more worried about the embezzlement a collapse would expose than about the tenants. Yuriy Bykov wrote and directed this Russian drama, which plays out across a single night.
Released in 2014, The Fool is a crime, drama and thriller film. The runtime is 138 minutes. Its listed language is Russian. It was made in Russia.
Only 37 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 37 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 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 Fool 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 37.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
