Film · 2015 · Films · 2010s
Bridge of Spies
Scored from 562 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
During the Cold War, American lawyer James B. Donovan is recruited to negotiate a prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Soviet Union, involving a captured American U-2 pilot and a Soviet KGB intelligence officer. Based on true events from the early 1960s.
Released in 2015, Bridge of Spies is a thriller, drama and history film. It runs 2h 22m and carries a PG-13 certificate. It was directed by Steven Spielberg. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance and Austin Stowell head the billed cast.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 562 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 570 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,149 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Bridge of Spies 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 562.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
