Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
The Assistant
Scored from 406 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A young woman working as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul moves through a single grueling day at the office, cleaning up after her boss and fielding calls from his wife and rattled hires. As she pieces together the pattern of abuse around her, she tries to report what she sees to HR and confronts how the entire system is built to protect the man at the top.
The Assistant (2019) is a film IMDb files under the drama genre.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 234 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 406 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 423 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 The Assistant 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 406.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
