Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
Scored from 365 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
After being orphaned, young Lewis Barnavelt moves in with his eccentric uncle Jonathan in a creaky old mansion that hides a mysterious ticking clock within its walls. As Lewis discovers his uncle and the neighbor Mrs. Zimmerman are warlocks, he begins learning magic himself and must help uncover the dark secret left behind by the home's previous owner before the clock's purpose is revealed.
Released in 2018, The House with a Clock in Its Walls is a comedy, family and fantasy film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 461 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 365 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 384 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 House with a Clock in Its Walls 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 365.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
