Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
Mommy
Scored from 84 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Diane 'Die' Despres is a widowed, hot-tempered working-class Quebec mother who brings her son Steve home after he is expelled from a juvenile detention center for setting a fire. Fifteen, diagnosed with ADHD and violently unpredictable, Steve swings between fierce affection and rage while Die scrambles for work, and a fictional Canadian law hangs over them permitting parents to commit a difficult child without a hearing. Their fragile household steadies when Kyla, a teacher on leave who has developed a severe stutter, moves in across the street and begins homeschooling him. Xavier Dolan's French-language drama is shot largely in a boxed 1:1 aspect ratio.
Mommy is a 2014 drama film. It plays in French. Its country of origin is listed as Canada. Its certificate is 18A. It runs 2h 19m.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. Only 84 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 87 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 4 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 Mommy 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 84.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
