Film · 2015 · Films · 2010s
The Lady in the Van
Scored from 104 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Based on true events, a playwright develops an unlikely friendship with an eccentric woman who has lived in a van parked on his London street for decades.
Released in 2015, The Lady in the Van is a biography, comedy and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. It runs 1h 44m and carries a PG-13 certificate.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 329 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 104 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 104 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 Lady in the Van 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 104.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
