TV Mini Series · 2022 · TV Mini Series · 2020s
The Ipcress File
Scored from 144 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 peers).
Summary
Set in 1960s London and Berlin at the height of the Cold War, this miniseries adapts Len Deighton's novel about Harry Palmer, a working-class British Army sergeant turned reluctant intelligence operative. Recruited out of military prison by a shadowy WO unit, Palmer is tasked with investigating the kidnapping of a prominent British nuclear scientist, a case that draws him into a web of double-dealing, brainwashing, and betrayal.
The Ipcress File is a 2022 drama and thriller miniseries.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 8 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 144 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 147 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s miniseries — 1,094 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 Ipcress File 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 TV Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 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 144.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s
