Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
Side by Side
Scored from 39 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Keanu Reeves hosts and produces this documentary on the displacement of photochemical film by digital capture, interviewing the directors and cinematographers living through the change. Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, George Lucas, Lars von Trier, Steven Soderbergh and the Wachowskis, alongside cinematographers such as Vittorio Storaro and Ellen Kuras, argue over resolution, the loss of the dailies ritual, and what happens on set when a director can watch a finished-looking image instantly. Director Christopher Kenneally follows the workflow from camera through editing, colour grading and archiving, treating the format shift as a craft problem rather than a nostalgia piece.
Side by Side (2012) is a film IMDb files under the documentary genre. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 36m.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 359 of whom clear the calibration test. Only 39 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 39 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
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 Side by Side 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 39.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
