Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
The Farewell
Scored from 290 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A Chinese-American writer returns to China with her family after learning her beloved grandmother has been given a terminal diagnosis that the family has decided to hide from her. Under the pretense of a hastily arranged wedding, the relatives gather to say goodbye without revealing the truth, forcing Billi to wrestle with the cultural clash between Western honesty and Eastern collective care.
Released in 2019, The Farewell is a comedy and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 290 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 305 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. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 479 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Farewell 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 290.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
