Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
The Place Beyond the Pines
Scored from 491 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A motorcycle stunt rider discovers he has a young son and turns to robbing banks to provide for him, putting him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop. Their fateful encounter sets off a chain of consequences that echoes through the next generation, as their sons cross paths years later in the same small upstate New York town.
Released in 2012, The Place Beyond the Pines is a crime, drama and thriller film.
The calibrated figure is built from 491 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 502 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3,469 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Place Beyond the Pines 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 491.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
