Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
The Impossible
Scored from 450 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A British family vacationing in Thailand is caught in the catastrophic 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Separated by the wave, the mother and eldest son struggle to survive serious injuries while the father searches the devastated coast for the rest of the family, hoping against the odds to reunite. Based on the true story of the Belon family.
Released in 2012, The Impossible is a drama, history and thriller film.
The calibrated figure is built from 450 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 466 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3,312 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Impossible 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 450.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
