Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
The Biggest Little Farm
Scored from 69 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
John and Molly Chester give up a small Los Angeles apartment for two hundred acres of exhausted farmland in Ventura County, California, intending to build a farm that runs like a natural ecosystem rather than a monoculture. Guided by the traditional-farming mentor Alan York, they plant dozens of crops, rebuild the dead soil with compost and cover crops, and stock the place with animals including a sow named Emma. The following years bring drought, wildfire, coyotes, gophers, snails and starlings, each infestation forcing them to look for a biological answer instead of a chemical one. John Chester, a wildlife cameraman by trade, directs and shoots the documentary himself across nearly a decade.
The Biggest Little Farm is a 2018 documentary and family film. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is PG. It runs 1h 31m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 91 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 69 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 73 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 The Biggest Little Farm 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 69.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
