Film · 2015 · Films · 2010s
The Intern
Scored from 539 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Ben Whittaker, a 70-year-old widower bored with retirement, joins an online fashion startup as a senior intern and is assigned to its founder, Jules Ostin. As Ben proves his worth around the office, he becomes a trusted confidant and advisor to the overworked Jules, who is wrestling with pressure to hire an outside CEO and strains in her personal life.
Released in 2015, The Intern is a comedy and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 539 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 562 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,428 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 Intern 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 539.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
