Film · 2013 · Films · 2010s
Finding Vivian Maier
Scored from 46 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In 2007 John Maloof, a young Chicago historian researching a local history book, paid a few hundred dollars for a box of negatives at an auction of defaulted storage lockers and found tens of thousands of street photographs by someone he could not identify. Co-directing with Charlie Siskel, he traces the name to Vivian Maier, a nanny who worked for families in Chicago and New York for decades while shooting compulsively with a Rolleiflex and showing the results to almost nobody. Interviews with her former employers and the grown children she raised, together with her hoarded newspapers, home movies and tape recordings, yield contradictory accounts of a secretive woman whose French-inflected accent may have been invented. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Finding Vivian Maier (2013) is a film IMDb files under the biography, documentary and history genres. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 23m.
Only 46 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 47 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 180 of whom clear the calibration test. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Finding Vivian Maier 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 46.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
