Film · 2015 · Films · 2010s
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
Scored from 3,140 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Three decades after the fall of the Empire, a scavenger named Rey on the desert planet Jakku crosses paths with a runaway stormtrooper and a veteran smuggler when a small droid carrying a map to the missing Luke Skywalker falls into her hands. As the tyrannical First Order hunts them down, Rey discovers a power within herself and joins the Resistance in a desperate fight against a dark new enemy.
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) is a film IMDb files under the action, adventure and science-fiction genres.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 3,140 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 3,306 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 11,128 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens 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 3,140.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
