Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
Love & Mercy
Scored from 173 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A dual-timeline biographical drama about Beach Boys songwriter Brian Wilson. In the 1960s, a young Brian struggles with mental illness and family pressure while pushing the band toward the groundbreaking Pet Sounds album. In the 1980s, an older Brian, medicated and controlled by his domineering therapist, finds hope through a romance with a car saleswoman who fights to free him.
Love & Mercy is a 2014 biography, drama and music film.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 173 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 177 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 687 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Love & Mercy 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 173.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
