Is Short Term 12 actually good?

Short Term 12 sits in the 92.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 92.6% of them.

How does Short Term 12 compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, Short Term 12 lands in the 95.0% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Short Term 12's score based on?

163 calibrated reviewers stand behind Short Term 12's score.

2013

global pct

92.6

Film · 2013 · Films · 2010s

Short Term 12

Name: Short Term 12
Genre: Drama
Released: 2013

Scored from 163 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

92.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

95.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

98.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

163 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Grace, a young supervisor at a short-term foster care facility for at-risk teens, navigates the daily challenges of caring for troubled youth alongside her boyfriend and co-worker Mason. When a new arrival, a guarded teenage girl named Jayden, stirs up echoes of Grace's own buried past, she is forced to confront unresolved trauma while trying to help the kids in her care.

Short Term 12 is a 2013 drama film.

163 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 168 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 847 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside.

Is Short Term 12 (2013) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 163
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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