Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
Tea With the Dames
Scored from 29 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Roger Michell's documentary, released in Britain as Nothing Like a Dame, films four leading British actresses — Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith — across a weekend spent together at Plowright's country house in West Sussex. Friends since their early days in repertory theatre and at the Old Vic, they sit in the garden with tea and champagne and work back through six decades of stage and screen: Shakespeare seasons, opening nights, and Laurence Olivier as colleague and, for Plowright, husband. The conversation turns to damehood, critics, failing eyesight and growing old, intercut with archive photographs and clips of their younger selves.
Released in 2018, Tea With the Dames is a documentary film. It was made in the United Kingdom. The runtime is 82 minutes.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 22 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 29 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 31 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 Tea With the Dames 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 29.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
