Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
The Light Between Oceans
Scored from 157 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
After World War I, a lighthouse keeper and his wife stationed on a remote Australian island struggle with repeated miscarriages. When a rowboat washes ashore carrying a dead man and a living infant, they make a fateful choice to raise the baby as their own, a decision whose moral consequences eventually catch up with them when they encounter the child's grieving mother on the mainland.
Released in 2016, The Light Between Oceans is a drama and romance film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 308 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 157 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 169 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 Light Between Oceans 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 157.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
