Film · 2011 · Films · 2010s
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Scored from 463 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Eva, a mother haunted by guilt and isolation, struggles to reconcile her fractured relationship with her troubled son Kevin in the aftermath of a horrific act of violence he committed at his high school. Told through a non-linear blend of past and present, the film traces Kevin's unsettling childhood and Eva's growing dread, raising harrowing questions about nature, nurture, and maternal responsibility.
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) is a film IMDb files under the drama, mystery and thriller genres.
The calibrated figure is built from 463 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 472 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. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,461 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 We Need to Talk About Kevin 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 463.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
