Is Beginners actually good?

Beginners sits in the 39.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 39.1% of them.

How does Beginners compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, Beginners lands in the 45.6% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Beginners's score based on?

150 calibrated reviewers stand behind Beginners's score.

2010

global pct

39.1

Film · 2010 · Films · 2010s

Beginners

Name: Beginners
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 2010

Scored from 150 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

39.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

45.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

25.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

150 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After his elderly father comes out as gay and then dies of cancer, a melancholy Los Angeles graphic artist reflects on his parents' marriage while tentatively beginning a new romance with a French actress. The film weaves between past and present as he tries to learn from his father's late-in-life embrace of honesty and love.

Released in 2010, Beginners is a comedy, drama and romance film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.

The calibrated figure is built from 150 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 153 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,748 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them.

Is Beginners (2010) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 150
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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