Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
The Rider
Scored from 115 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Brady Blackburn is a young Lakota bronc rider on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation who comes home with a metal plate in his skull after a horse crushed his head at a rodeo. Doctors tell him he can never ride again; his riding hand seizes shut without warning, and he takes a supermarket job while still breaking and training horses on the side. At home there is his gambling father Wayne and his autistic younger sister Lilly, and at the care facility there is Lane Scott, a friend and former bull rider left unable to speak or move. Chloé Zhao's neorealist drama casts the Jandreau family and their neighbors as lightly fictionalized versions of themselves.
The Rider is a 2017 drama and western film. Its certificate is PG. It runs 1h 44m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 135 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 115 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 118 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 Rider 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 115.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
