Film · 2013 · Films · 2010s
The Host
Scored from 287 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In a future where parasitic alien souls have taken over most humans, a young woman named Melanie is implanted with a soul called Wanderer, but Melanie's consciousness refuses to fade. The two share one body and form an uneasy alliance as Wanderer helps Melanie reconnect with the human resistance hiding in the desert, including the people Melanie loves. Based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer.
Released in 2013, The Host is an action, adventure and drama film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,041 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 287 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 306 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Host 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 287.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
