Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
Bumblebee
Scored from 1,127 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In 1987, a young Autobot named Bumblebee arrives on Earth and disguises himself as a yellow Volkswagen Beetle to hide from alien bounty hunters. When a teenage girl discovers him, an unlikely friendship forms as she helps him stay concealed. Together they must navigate the challenges of keeping his true identity secret while evading those who hunt him.
Bumblebee is a 2018 action, adventure and science-fiction film directed by Travis Knight. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena and Jorge Lendeborg Jr. head the billed cast. Its certificate is PG-13. It runs 1h 54m.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,702 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 1,127 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,181 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 Bumblebee 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 1,127.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
