Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Scored from 619 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Charlie, a shy and troubled high school freshman, is befriended by two charismatic seniors, Sam and Patrick, who pull him into their world of music, parties, and first loves. As Charlie navigates friendship, heartbreak, and the challenges of growing up, buried memories from his past begin to surface and threaten his fragile mental state.
Released in 2012, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a drama film.
The calibrated figure is built from 619 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 694 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 4,232 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 Perks of Being a Wallflower 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 619.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
