Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Five Feet Apart
Scored from 312 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Two teenagers with cystic fibrosis, Stella and Will, meet during a hospital stay and fall for each other despite strict medical rules requiring CF patients to stay six feet apart to avoid cross-infection. Determined to reclaim some control over their lives, they decide to steal one foot back and remain only five feet apart, testing the limits of their illness and their feelings.
Five Feet Apart is a 2019 drama and romance film.
The calibrated figure is built from 312 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 338 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 258 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 Five Feet Apart 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 312.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
