Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s
The Summit of the Gods
Scored from 41 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Makoto Fukamachi, a Japanese photojournalist covering Himalayan expeditions, comes across a battered camera in a Kathmandu back-alley shop that may be the one George Mallory carried when he disappeared near Everest's summit in 1924 — film that could settle whether Mallory got there decades before Hillary and Tenzing. Chasing the camera's provenance leads him instead to Jôji Habu, a brilliant, solitary climber who withdrew from the alpine world after an earlier disaster and is now preparing an attempt on Everest's southwest face alone, in winter, without supplementary oxygen. Patrick Imbert's hand-drawn French animated feature adapts the manga Jiro Taniguchi drew from Baku Yumemakura's novel.
The Summit of the Gods is a 2021 adventure, animation and drama film. It runs 2h 41m. Its country of origin is listed as Japan. It plays in Japanese.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 15 of whom clear the calibration test. Only 41 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 41 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 Summit of the Gods 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 41.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
