Film · 2020 · Films · 2020s
The Mole: Undercover in North Korea
Scored from 28 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Ulrich Larsen, an unemployed Danish cook, spends roughly a decade posing as a true believer inside the Korean Friendship Association, the pro-Pyongyang solidarity network run from Spain by Alejandro Cao de Benós, recording his rise through it on hidden cameras. Working with director Mads Brügger, Larsen introduces a supposed Scandinavian investor — a former French Foreign Legionnaire going by Mr. James — and the pair are led into talks with North Korean officials about weapons and methamphetamine, and about building a concealed arms factory on an island in Uganda. The Danish documentary intercuts the undercover material with Larsen's unremarkable home life and the strain the long deception puts on it.
Released in 2020, The Mole: Undercover in North Korea is a documentary and thriller film. Its country of origin is listed as Denmark.
Only 28 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 29 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s 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 Mole: Undercover in North Korea 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 28.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
