Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
Wolf Children
Scored from 111 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Hana, a Tokyo college student, falls in love with a quiet man who turns out to be the last descendant of Japan's wolves, able to shift between human and animal form. They have two children — Yuki, born on a snowy day, and her younger brother Ame, born in rain — who inherit the change and shift shape whenever emotion overtakes them. Left to raise them alone, Hana trades the city for a derelict farmhouse in the mountains, learning to grow food and deflect the questions of neighbors and welfare officers, while Yuki and Ame edge toward choosing whether to live as humans or as wolves. Mamoru Hosoda's animated feature follows the family over more than a decade.
Wolf Children is a 2012 animation, drama and family film. It is rated PG. The runtime is 117 minutes. Its listed language is Japanese. It was made in Japan.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 219 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 111 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 122 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 Wolf Children 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 111.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
