Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
Katie Says Goodbye
Scored from 33 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Katie is a seventeen-year-old waitress at a roadside diner in a small desert town in New Mexico, saving cash in a hidden tin to move to San Francisco and train as a beautician. She lives with her withdrawn, largely unemployed mother, and supplements her wages by sleeping with local men and passing truckers, treating the arrangement with unguarded good cheer. When she falls for Bruno, a taciturn mechanic recently out of prison, her plans and her standing in the town come under strain. Written and directed by Wayne Roberts, it is an American independent drama built around Olivia Cooke in the title role.
Katie Says Goodbye is a 2016 drama film. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 28m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 12 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 33 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 33 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
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 Katie Says Goodbye 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 33.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
