Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
The Look of Silence
Scored from 37 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Adi Rukun is an Indonesian optometrist born just after the army-led purges of 1965-66, in which his older brother Ramli was killed in North Sumatra alongside a million or more people accused of being communists. Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary, a companion to The Act of Killing, follows Adi as he studies footage of the killers recounting what they did in cheerful, unbothered detail, then goes to meet those men in person — testing their eyesight, fitting frames, and asking the questions nobody in the village asks. The perpetrators still hold local power, and the inquiry leads back into Adi's own family.
The Look of Silence (2014) is a film IMDb files under the biography, documentary and history genres. Its certificate is PG-13. It plays in Indonesian. It runs 1h 43m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 79 of whom clear the calibration test. Only 37 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 37 reviewers with at least two reviews 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 Look of Silence 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 37.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
