Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s
The Mauritanian
Scored from 327 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian engineer taken from his mother's house in Nouakchott in 2001, has been held for years at Guantanamo Bay without charge, accused of recruiting for al-Qaeda. Albuquerque defense lawyer Nancy Hollander and her associate Teri Duncan file a habeas corpus petition on his behalf and fight the government for files that arrive almost entirely redacted, unsure how much their client is telling them. Opposite them, Marine prosecutor Lt. Col. Stuart Couch, who lost a friend aboard one of the hijacked planes, prepares a death-penalty case and begins asking how Slahi's confession was obtained. Kevin Macdonald's fact-based legal drama adapts Slahi's memoir Guantanamo Diary, with Tahar Rahim, Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch.
The Mauritanian (2021) is a film IMDb files under the biography, drama and thriller genres. It runs 2h 9m. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. Its certificate is R.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 120 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 327 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 342 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 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 Mauritanian 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 · 2020s (7,930 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 327.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
