Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Bad Education
Scored from 175 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Based on a true story, the superintendent of a Long Island school district (Hugh Jackman) is celebrated as a charismatic educator who has boosted the district's college placement rankings. When a student journalist begins digging into a routine expense story, she uncovers the largest public school embezzlement scandal in American history, threatening to unravel the carefully maintained facades of the administrators involved.
Bad Education (2019) is a film IMDb files under the biography, comedy and crime genres.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 134 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 175 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 177 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Bad Education 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 175.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
