Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
The Best of Enemies
Scored from 125 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In Durham, North Carolina, in 1971, a fire damages a Black elementary school and a court order forces the city to weigh integrating its classrooms. Consultant Bill Riddick is brought in to run a charrette, a marathon public summit whose delegates debate the question and then vote on it, and he insists on two co-chairs who loathe each other: civil rights activist Ann Atwater (Taraji P. Henson) and C.P. Ellis (Sam Rockwell), president of the local Ku Klux Klan chapter. Robin Bissell's fact-based drama, adapted from Osha Gray Davidson's book, follows the sessions and the pressure each co-chair faces from their own side.
The Best of Enemies is a 2019 biography, drama and history film. It is rated PG-13. It was made in the United States. The runtime is 133 minutes.
125 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 129 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 155 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Best of Enemies 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 125.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
