Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Villains
Scored from 162 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
After a clumsy gas-station robbery, a pair of amateur criminal lovers break into what seems to be an empty suburban house to steal a car, only to discover a disturbing secret in the basement. Their plan to flee is upended when the home's seemingly genteel owners return, kicking off a darkly comic cat-and-mouse standoff.
Released in 2019, Villains is a comedy, horror and thriller film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 110 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 162 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 165 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 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 Villains 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 162.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
