Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
The Judge
Scored from 356 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A successful big-city defense attorney returns to his small Indiana hometown for his mother's funeral, only to discover that his estranged father, the town's longtime judge, is suspected of murder. He reluctantly takes on the case, forcing the two men to confront decades of buried resentments while uncovering the truth behind the crime.
Released in 2014, The Judge is a crime, drama and mystery film.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,537 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 356 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 369 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 Judge 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 356.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
