Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
The Red Pill
Scored from 107 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
American filmmaker Cassie Jaye sets out to document the men's rights movement, an online subculture she expects to find straightforwardly misogynistic, and spends roughly a year interviewing its figures on camera. Her subjects include Paul Elam of A Voice for Men, author Warren Farrell and Erin Pizzey, who helped found an early domestic-violence refuge in Britain; they raise male suicide, workplace deaths, conscription, custody disputes and violence against men. Jaye cuts these against interviews with feminist critics of the movement and against video-diary entries recording her own reactions as the shoot goes on.
The Red Pill (2016) is a film IMDb files under the documentary genre. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 57m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 101 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 107 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 110 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Red Pill 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 107.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
