Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
The Salt of the Earth
Scored from 42 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado — the photographer's son — build a portrait of Sebastião Salgado around his black-and-white images and his own commentary, spoken as he studies the prints. The film moves through the projects that occupied roughly forty years: the Serra Pelada gold mine in Brazil, famine in the Sahel, the burning oil fields of Kuwait, and the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, which left him unwilling to keep photographing people. It then follows his return to his family's exhausted land in Minas Gerais, where he and his wife Lélia set about replanting the forest, and the nature series Genesis that came out of it. The documentary is part biography, part exhibition.
The Salt of the Earth is a 2014 biography, documentary and history film. It was made in France. It plays in French. Its certificate is PG-13. It runs 1h 50m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 102 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. Only 42 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 43 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
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 Salt of the Earth 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 42.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
