Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
The Water Diviner
Scored from 191 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
An Australian farmer with a gift for divining water travels to Turkey after World War I to find the remains of his three sons who went missing at the Battle of Gallipoli. With the help of a Turkish officer and a hotel keeper in Istanbul, he searches the former battlefield and uncovers truths he never expected.
The Water Diviner (2014) is a film IMDb files under the drama, history and war genres.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 191 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 195 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 335 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 Water Diviner 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 191.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
