Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
Stronger
Scored from 127 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Based on the true story of Jeff Bauman, a young Bostonian who loses both legs in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. As he recovers physically and emotionally, he struggles with trauma, fame as a symbol of resilience, and his relationship with his on-again off-again girlfriend Erin, whom he was waiting for at the finish line.
Stronger is a 2017 biography and drama film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 239 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 127 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 129 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them.
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 Stronger 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 127.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
