Film · 2013 · Films · 2010s
Behind the Candelabra
Scored from 157 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 film chronicles the turbulent six-year romance between flamboyant Las Vegas entertainer Liberace and his much younger lover Scott Thorson, who meets the pianist backstage in 1977. As Scott is drawn into Liberace's opulent, secretive world, their relationship strains under jealousy, control, plastic surgery, and addiction.
Behind the Candelabra (2013) is a film IMDb files under the biography, drama and music genres.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 891 of whom clear the calibration test. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 157 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 158 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 Behind the Candelabra 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 157.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
