Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Bombshell
Scored from 532 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A drama depicting the sexual harassment scandal at Fox News, following multiple women—including anchor Megyn Kelly and former host Gretchen Carlson—as they navigate workplace harassment and attempt to hold powerful executives accountable.
Released in 2019, Bombshell is a biography, drama and thriller film. It runs 1h 48m. Its certificate is R. It was directed by Jay Roach. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie head the billed cast.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 912 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 532 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 540 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 Bombshell 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 532.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
