Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
Mr. Church
Scored from 201 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In early-1970s Los Angeles, ten-year-old Charlie Brooks comes downstairs to find a stranger cooking breakfast in her kitchen: Henry Joseph Church, a chef hired by her mother's late lover to cook for the household for six months, the time doctors have given Marie to live with breast cancer. Marie outlasts that prognosis by years, and Mr. Church keeps arriving each morning, becoming the fixed point of Charlie's childhood while volunteering nothing about where he goes at night or what his own life contains. Narrated by Charlie as she grows into a young woman, Bruce Beresford's drama follows the arrangement across roughly fifteen years. Eddie Murphy plays Church.
Mr. Church is a 2016 comedy and drama film. It runs 1h 44m. Its certificate is PG-13. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 201 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 217 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. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 174 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 Mr. Church 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 201.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
