Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
The Nice Guys
Scored from 582 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Set in 1970s Los Angeles, a bumbling private eye and a hard-knuckled enforcer reluctantly team up to investigate the disappearance of a young woman and the apparent suicide of a porn star. Their case spirals into a wider conspiracy involving the auto industry, government corruption, and a string of dead bodies, with both men's wisecracking dynamic and the PI's sharp teenage daughter driving the chaos.
Released in 2016, The Nice Guys is an action, comedy and crime film. Its comedy subtype is Action Comedy.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. 582 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 590 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,986 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Nice Guys 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 582.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
