Film · 2024 · Films · 2020s
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Scored from 44 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Benjamin Ree's Norwegian documentary concerns Mats Steen, a young man with Duchenne muscular dystrophy who died in 2014 at 25, and whose parents had spent years assuming his world had narrowed to a computer in the basement. After his death they posted a notice on the blog he kept and were answered by strangers across Europe who had known him for a decade as Ibelin Redmoore, a character in World of Warcraft. Drawing on tens of thousands of pages of saved chat logs, Ree rebuilds that second life in game animation, cut against home video and interviews with the family and with guildmates who had never met them.
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin is a 2024 animation, biography and documentary film. The runtime is 104 minutes. It was made in Norway.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 31 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 44 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 47 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 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 Remarkable Life of Ibelin 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 44.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
