Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
The Goldfinch
Scored from 256 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
After surviving a terrorist bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that kills his mother, a young boy named Theo secretly takes a priceless Dutch painting from the rubble. The film follows him across years and continents - from a wealthy Manhattan family to dusty Las Vegas suburbs - as the stolen artwork shapes his adult life, friendships, and entanglements with the criminal underworld. Based on Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
The Goldfinch is a 2019 crime, drama and mystery film.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 256 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 256 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 272 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Goldfinch 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 256.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
