Film · 2011 · Films · 2010s
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Scored from 572 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A scientist develops an experimental drug to cure Alzheimer's disease. When tested on a chimpanzee, the drug dramatically increases the ape's intelligence. As the intelligent ape escapes captivity and forms a community with other primates, tensions escalate between the growing ape population and humans.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a 2011 action, drama and science-fiction film starring James Franco, Andy Serkis and Freida Pinto. It runs 1h 45m and carries a PG-13 certificate. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Rupert Wyatt directed it.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 12,087 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 572 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 583 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 Rise of the Planet of the Apes 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 572.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
