Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
Only the Brave
Scored from 224 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Eric Marsh, superintendent of a municipal fire crew in Prescott, Arizona, pushes to get his men certified as a Hotshot team so they can cut line at the front of a wildfire instead of mopping up behind federal crews. Among his recruits is Brendan McDonough, a local addict trying to straighten out after learning he has fathered a daughter. As the newly certified Granite Mountain Hotshots take on fires across the Southwest, Marsh's devotion to the crew strains his marriage to Amanda and his loyalty to the town official who backed him. Joseph Kosinski's drama follows the real crew's seasons up to their deployment to the Yarnell Hill fire in June 2013.
Only the Brave is a 2017 action, biography and drama film. It runs 2h 14m and carries a PG-13 certificate. It was made in the United States.
224 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 232 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 397 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 the Brave 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 224.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
