Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
First Man
Scored from 1,125 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A biographical drama chronicling Neil Armstrong's path to becoming the first person to walk on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission, exploring both the technological challenges of the space race and Armstrong's personal struggles throughout his NASA career.
First Man is a 2018 drama, biography and history film starring Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy and Kyle Chandler. It runs 2h 21m and carries a PG-13 certificate. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Damien Chazelle directed it.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,115 of whom clear the calibration test. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 1,125 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,163 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 First Man 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 1,125.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
