Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
The Best of Me
Scored from 146 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Two former high school sweethearts, Dawson and Amanda, reunite in their Louisiana hometown after twenty years apart when they return for the funeral of a mutual friend. As they reconnect, flashbacks reveal the passionate young romance that was torn apart by family violence and class divisions, forcing them to confront whether they can rekindle what they lost.
Released in 2014, The Best of Me is a drama and romance film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 456 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 146 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 155 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 The Best of Me 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 146.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
