Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
Inherent Vice
Scored from 310 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In 1970 Los Angeles, perpetually stoned private investigator Doc Sportello takes on a tangled case when his ex-girlfriend asks him to look into a plot against her new lover, a wealthy real estate developer. As Doc stumbles through a haze of disappearances, cults, dentists, and a shadowy syndicate called the Golden Fang, he tangles with a flat-topped LAPD detective and tries to make sense of a counterculture giving way to something darker.
Inherent Vice is a 2014 comedy, crime and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,148 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 310 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 317 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 Inherent Vice 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 310.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
