Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
Love, Simon
Scored from 405 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Simon Spier is a closeted high school senior with a loving family and tight-knit friends. When he strikes up an anonymous email correspondence with another closeted classmate who goes by 'Blue,' a meddling peer discovers the messages and threatens to out him. Simon must navigate blackmail, strained friendships, and the search for Blue's identity while finding the courage to come out on his own terms.
Love, Simon is a 2018 comedy, drama and romance film. Inside comedy it is classed as Romcom.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 673 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 405 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 441 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Love, Simon 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 405.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
