Film · 2013 · Films · 2010s
Only Lovers Left Alive
Scored from 238 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Adam, a reclusive underground musician, and Eve, his centuries-old wife, are vampires living apart in Detroit and Tangier. Reunited to soothe Adam's deepening despair with humanity, their fragile nocturnal idyll is disrupted by the arrival of Eve's reckless younger sister Ava, forcing the couple to confront a world running short on uncontaminated blood and beauty.
Only Lovers Left Alive is a 2013 comedy, drama and fantasy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 750 of whom clear the calibration test. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 238 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 243 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Only Lovers Left Alive 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 238.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
