Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
Welcome to Marwen
Scored from 217 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 brutal attack leaves him with severe memory loss and PTSD, artist Mark Hogancamp builds an elaborate miniature World War II-era Belgian village in his yard, populated by dolls representing himself, his friends, and his attackers. Through staged photographs of his fictional town Marwen, he processes his trauma and slowly works toward facing his assailants in court.
Released in 2018, Welcome to Marwen is a biography, comedy and drama film.
The calibrated figure is built from 217 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 226 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, 193 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 Welcome to Marwen 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 217.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
