Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
How It Ends
Scored from 1,144 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A man races across the country to reach his pregnant girlfriend during a massive, unexplained blackout. Facing dangerous obstacles and societal collapse along the way, he must decide how far he'll go to reunite with the woman he loves.
How It Ends is a 2018 thriller, drama and science fiction film starring Theo James, Forest Whitaker and Nicole Ari Parker. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. David M. Rosenthal directed it. Its certificate is PG-13. It runs 1h 53m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 191 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 1,144 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,209 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 How It Ends 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 1,144.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
