Film · 2015 · Films · 2010s
The Lobster
Scored from 718 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 dystopian society, single adults are sent to a hotel where they have 45 days to find a romantic partner or be transformed into an animal of their choosing. A recently divorced man checks in and selects a lobster as his fallback, but his struggles to connect lead him to flee into the woods, where a group of militant loners enforce the opposite rule: romance is forbidden.
The Lobster is a 2015 drama, romance and science-fiction film.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,317 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 718 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 730 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Lobster 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 718.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
