Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
The Promise
Scored from 205 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
On the eve of the First World War, Mikael Boghosian, an Armenian apothecary from a village in southern Anatolia, accepts a betrothal and its dowry in order to study medicine in Constantinople. There he is drawn to Ana, an Armenian woman raised in Paris, who is living with Chris Myers, an American Associated Press correspondent covering the Ottoman capital. As the empire enters the war and turns on its Armenian population in 1915, the three are separated and forced into flight, with Myers trying to get evidence of the deportations and massacres out to the wider world. Terry George's historical drama sets a love triangle against the Armenian genocide.
Released in 2016, The Promise is an action, adventure and drama film. The runtime is 133 minutes. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is PG-13.
The calibrated figure is built from 205 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 229 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.
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 Promise 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 205.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
