Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
The Theory of Everything
Scored from 517 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
At Cambridge in the 1960s, brilliant cosmology student Stephen Hawking falls in love with literature student Jane Wilde just as he is diagnosed with motor neuron disease and given two years to live. As his body deteriorates and his scientific fame grows, Jane commits to building a life and family with him, and the film traces the strain, devotion, and eventual unraveling of their marriage across decades.
Released in 2014, The Theory of Everything is a biography, drama and romance film.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 517 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 538 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,674 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 Theory of Everything 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 517.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
