Film · 2015 · Films · 2010s
Steve Jobs
Scored from 415 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Structured as three real-time acts set backstage before the 1984 Macintosh, 1988 NeXT Cube, and 1998 iMac launches, the film follows Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as he clashes with his marketing chief Joanna Hoffman, engineer Andy Hertzfeld, CEO John Sculley, co-founder Steve Wozniak, and ex-girlfriend Chrisann Brennan over his refusal to acknowledge his daughter Lisa. A portrait of genius, ego, and the cost of perfectionism.
Steve Jobs is a 2015 biography and drama film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,546 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 415 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 419 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Steve Jobs 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 415.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
