Film · 2013 · Films · 2010s
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Scored from 161 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Burt Wonderstone is a vain, long-running Las Vegas stage magician whose glitzy partnership with childhood friend Anton Marvelton collapses as audiences abandon their tired act for the shock antics of street magician Steve Gray. Broke and washed up, Burt rediscovers his love of magic through his boyhood idol Rance Holloway and plots a comeback to win back his stage, his partner, and his self-respect.
Released in 2013, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is a comedy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,943 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 161 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 163 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 Incredible Burt Wonderstone 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 161.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
