Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Scored from 687 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A fictionalized, cash-strapped Nicolas Cage, frustrated with his career, reluctantly accepts a $1 million offer to attend the birthday party of a wealthy superfan in Mallorca. Once there, he is recruited by the CIA, who claim his host is a dangerous arms dealer, forcing Cage to play the role of a lifetime while navigating a genuine friendship with the man he is supposed to be spying on.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) is a film IMDb files under the action, comedy and crime genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Action Comedy.
7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 687 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 705 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 698 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent 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 687.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
