Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
Life of the Party
Scored from 232 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
After her husband abruptly asks for a divorce, longtime housewife Deanna decides to finish the college degree she abandoned years earlier by re-enrolling at the same university her daughter attends. Navigating dorm life, sorority parties, and a much younger love interest, she rebuilds her confidence and reconnects with her daughter along the way.
Life of the Party (2018) is a film IMDb files under the comedy genre. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.
The calibrated figure is built from 232 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 242 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 384 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them.
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 Life of the Party 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 232.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
