Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
Café Society
Scored from 192 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In 1930s New York, a young Bronx native travels to Hollywood hoping to work for his powerful uncle, a busy talent agent. He falls for his uncle's secretary, only to discover she is already involved with someone else, sending him back to New York to help run his brother's glamorous nightclub. Years later, a chance reunion forces him to weigh the life he built against the love he lost.
Café Society is a 2016 comedy, drama and romance film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 192 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 193 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Café Society 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 192.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
