Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
Under the Shadow
Scored from 135 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Tehran, 1988, during the final years of the Iran-Iraq War. After her husband is sent to the front lines, a former medical student named Shideh stays behind in their apartment building with her young daughter as missile strikes intensify. When an unexploded bomb crashes through the roof, Shideh begins to suspect that a malevolent djinn has invaded their home and is targeting her child.
Under the Shadow is a 2016 drama, fantasy and horror film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 151 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 135 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 141 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Under the Shadow 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 135.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
