Film · 2010 · Films · 2010s
The Yellow Sea
Scored from 43 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A Korean-Chinese man is hired to commit a murder, drawing him into the violent world of organized crime. He becomes entangled in a complex web of deception and revenge.
The Yellow Sea (2010) is a film IMDb files under the action, crime and drama genres. Its listed language is Korean. It was made in South Korea. The runtime is 135 minutes.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 134 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 43 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 43 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
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 Yellow Sea 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 43.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
