Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
The BFG
Scored from 241 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 orphan girl named Sophie is whisked away from her London orphanage by a Big Friendly Giant who collects and delivers dreams. As Sophie adjusts to life in Giant Country, she discovers the BFG is bullied by larger, man-eating giants, and the two hatch a plan with the Queen of England to stop them.
Released in 2016, The BFG is an adventure, family and fantasy film.
The calibrated figure is built from 241 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 248 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,152 of whom clear the calibration test. 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 BFG 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 241.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
