Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s
Far from Heaven
Scored from 254 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In 1950s suburban Connecticut, picture-perfect housewife Cathy Whitaker's world unravels when she discovers her husband's hidden life. As her marriage strains, she finds unexpected connection with her Black gardener, a friendship that scandalizes their rigidly segregated community and forces her to confront the limits of her seemingly idyllic existence.
Released in 2002, Far from Heaven is a drama and romance film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,045 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 254 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 260 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.
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 Far from Heaven 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 · 2000s (7,847 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 254.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
