Film · 2011 · Films · 2010s
The Rum Diary
Scored from 150 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In 1960, burned-out American journalist Paul Kemp takes a job at a struggling English-language newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Drinking heavily and drifting between assignments, he gets pulled into a shady real estate scheme by a slick businessman whose beautiful fiancee captivates him. As the venture curdles, Kemp finds his voice as a writer determined to expose the corruption around him.
The Rum Diary is a 2011 comedy, drama and romance film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,829 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 150 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 153 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 Rum Diary 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 150.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
