Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
Eighth Grade
Scored from 388 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Kayla, a shy, anxious 13-year-old who posts upbeat self-help videos almost nobody watches, navigates the final week of middle school in suburbia. Over a few awkward days - a pool party, a high-school shadow day, a queasy ride home from the mall - she fumbles toward connection with her classmates and her devoted single dad while trying to become the confident girl she pretends to be online.
Eighth Grade is a 2018 comedy and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 388 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 411 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 497 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 Eighth Grade 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 388.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
