Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
The Current War
Scored from 217 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In the late 1880s, inventor Thomas Edison and industrialist George Westinghouse wage a bitter public battle to determine whose electrical system, direct current or alternating current, will power the modern world. As the rivalry escalates, Serbian engineer Nikola Tesla enters the fray, and the three men's competing ambitions, egos, and innovations shape the future of electricity in America.
The Current War is a 2017 biography, drama and history film.
The calibrated figure is built from 217 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 220 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1 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 Current War 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 217.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
