Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Marriage Story
Scored from 1,186 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A married couple navigates the emotional and legal complexities of their separation and divorce in New York. As they shift from collaborators to adversaries, they face custody battles, escalating legal costs, and the painful unraveling of their relationship through arguments, mediation, and courtroom proceedings.
Marriage Story is a 2019 drama and romance film directed by Noah Baumbach. Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Laura Dern head the billed cast. Its certificate is R. It runs 2h 17m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 858 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 1,186 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,231 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Marriage Story 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 1,186.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
