Film · 2011 · Films · 2010s
Bad Teacher
Scored from 274 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A foul-mouthed, gold-digging middle school teacher coasts through her job while scheming to fund breast implants, hoping to land a wealthy substitute teacher. Her schemes pit her against an earnest rival colleague and lead to increasingly outrageous fundraising stunts, including a desperate push to win a cash bonus tied to her students' test scores.
Bad Teacher is a 2011 comedy and romance film. Inside comedy it is classed as Romcom.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 4,971 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 274 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 283 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.
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 Teacher 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 274.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
