
Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
The Stranger
Scored from 151 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
An Australian crime thriller based on a real undercover operation. A man on the run forms an unlikely friendship with a quiet stranger, not realizing his new confidant is part of an elaborate covert police sting designed to extract a confession to a long-unsolved crime. As trust deepens, the operation closes in.
The Stranger is a 2022 crime, drama and thriller film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 151 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 151 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 156 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 Stranger 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 151.
Cohort: Films · 2020s


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