Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
The Last Movie Star
Scored from 91 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Vic Edwards (Burt Reynolds), a stuntman-turned-movie-star whose fame peaked in the 1970s, is an old man in Los Angeles with no work and few people left. Flattered by an invitation to collect a lifetime achievement award from the International Nashville Film Festival, he arrives to find a two-man operation run out of the back room of a bar by young fans, and a sullen driver, Lil (Ariel Winter), assigned to ferry him around. Rather than sit through the tribute, Vic has her drive him to Knoxville, Tennessee, to look at the house and the people he left behind decades earlier. Adam Rifkin's drama splices Reynolds into footage of his own younger self from Smokey and the Bandit and Deliverance.
Released in 2017, The Last Movie Star is a drama film. Its certificate is R. It runs 1h 47m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 32 of whom clear the calibration test. Only 91 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 100 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them.
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 Last Movie Star 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 91.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
