Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Scored from 121 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Toby, a jaded advertising director shooting a commercial in Spain, stumbles back into the village where he once made a student film about Don Quixote. He finds the old shoemaker he cast as the knight still convinced he truly is Quixote, and is dragged along as the deluded old man's Sancho Panza through a surreal journey that blurs past, present, and fantasy.
Released in 2018, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is an adventure, comedy and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 70 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 121 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 128 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 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 Man Who Killed Don Quixote 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 121.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
