Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
Second Act
Scored from 195 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Maya, a big-box store assistant manager passed over for a promotion despite her street smarts, gets a second chance when a fabricated resume and social media profile land her a consulting role at a major Manhattan cosmetics company. As she tries to prove that experience can rival an Ivy League pedigree, a personal secret from her past resurfaces and threatens to unravel her new life.
Second Act (2018) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and romance genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 189 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 195 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 206 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 Second Act 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 195.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
