Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
Foxcatcher
Scored from 320 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Olympic wrestling champion Mark Schultz accepts an invitation from eccentric multimillionaire John du Pont to train at his Foxcatcher Farm estate ahead of the 1988 Seoul Olympics. As du Pont's grip on Mark tightens and his behavior grows more erratic, Mark's older brother and fellow gold medalist Dave is drawn into the increasingly volatile relationship, with tragic consequences.
Released in 2014, Foxcatcher is a biography, drama and history film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,023 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 320 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 327 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 Foxcatcher 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 320.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
