Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
Ode to My Father
Scored from 26 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Yoon Duk-soo is a boy at the Hungnam evacuation of December 1950, when American ships carry refugees south during the Korean War; separated from his father and younger sister in the crush at the docks, he reaches Busan carrying a promise to head the family in his father's place. The film follows him across the decades that follow as he works his aunt's shop in Busan's Gukje Market, signs on as a miner in West Germany — where he meets a Korean nurse, Young-ja — and later takes contract work in wartime Vietnam, sending his wages home each time. Yoon Je-kyoon's South Korean drama, starring Hwang Jung-min, ties Duk-soo's private sacrifices to national events, including the televised broadcasts that reunited families separated by the war.
Ode to My Father (2014) is a film IMDb files under the drama and war genres. Its country of origin is listed as South Korea. The runtime is 126 minutes. Its listed language is Korean.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 15 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 26 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 27 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Ode to My Father 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 26.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
