Film · 2013 · Films · 2010s
Hope
Scored from 44 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Lee Joon-ik's South Korean drama, based on a real criminal case from 2008, follows nine-year-old So-won, a schoolgirl attacked by a drunken stranger on her way to class one rainy morning. She survives, but with injuries that require surgery and a colostomy bag, and afterwards cannot bear to be near grown men, her own father included. Her parents, a factory worker and his pregnant wife, have to carry her through hospital wards, counselling, reporters camped outside and a trial at which the child is expected to testify. Shut out of her room, the father takes to appearing in the costume of Kokomong, the cartoon character she loves, so that he can be with her without being seen.
Released in 2013, Hope is a drama film. It runs 2h 2m. It plays in Korean. Its country of origin is listed as South Korea.
Only 44 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, 1 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 Hope 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 44.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
