Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
God's Not Dead
Scored from 347 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A Christian college freshman is told by his philosophy professor that he must sign a statement declaring God is dead in order to pass the course. He refuses and is instead challenged to defend God's existence in a series of in-class debates before his skeptical peers. Parallel storylines follow other characters wrestling with faith, doubt, and personal crises.
Released in 2014, God's Not Dead is a drama and romance film.
The calibrated figure is built from 347 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 384 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 God's Not Dead 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 347.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
