Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
Scored from 29 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., a 68-year-old Black Marine veteran living with bipolar disorder in a White Plains, New York apartment, accidentally triggers his medical alert pendant in the early hours of the morning. Police arrive; he tells them through the closed door that he is fine and asks them to leave, and they refuse to go without seeing him, beginning a standoff that grinds on for over an hour as the officers escalate. David Midell's dramatization of the November 2011 incident unfolds close to real time, draws on the audio the alert device recorded, and confines itself almost entirely to one hallway and doorway. Frankie Faison plays Chamberlain.
The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain is a 2019 drama and thriller film. It was made in the United States. The runtime is 83 minutes.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 16 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 29 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 32 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain 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 29.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
