Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
Where the Crawdads Sing
Scored from 654 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A young woman known as the 'Marsh Girl,' who raised herself in the isolated wetlands of North Carolina after being abandoned by her family, becomes the prime suspect when a local man is found dead. As her murder trial unfolds, the story traces her lonely upbringing, her bond with two very different young men from town, and the prejudices of the community that shunned her.
Where the Crawdads Sing is a 2022 drama, mystery and romance film.
7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,005 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 654 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 677 reviewers with at least two reviews each 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 Where the Crawdads Sing 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 · 2020s (7,930 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 654.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
