Film · 2011 · Films · 2010s
The Front Line
Scored from 26 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In February 1953, with the Korean War stalled and armistice talks dragging on, South Korean counter-intelligence lieutenant Kang Eun-pyo is sent to the eastern front to investigate the death of a company commander shot with a South Korean-issue bullet, and to find out who has been passing letters across enemy lines. At Aerok Hill he finds Alligator Company: a unit that has taken and lost the same ridge dozens of times, is led by a strikingly young captain, and includes Kim Soo-hyeok, a friend Kang had believed killed early in the war. The longer he stays with them, the less the front resembles the war he was briefed on. Jang Hun's South Korean war drama was the country's submission for the 2012 foreign language film Oscar.
The Front Line (2011) is a film IMDb files under the action, drama and history genres. It plays in Korean. It runs 2h 13m. Its country of origin is listed as South Korea.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 62 of whom clear the calibration test. Only 26 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 26 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
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 Front Line 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 26.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
