Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
The Lucky One
Scored from 135 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A U.S. Marine returns from his third tour in Iraq and sets out to find the unknown woman in a photograph he believes kept him alive on the battlefield. Tracking her to a Louisiana kennel, he takes a job there without revealing his reason for coming, and an unexpected romance develops as he struggles with whether to tell her the truth.
Released in 2012, The Lucky One is a drama, mystery and romance film.
The calibrated figure is built from 135 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 139 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,569 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Lucky One 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 135.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
