Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
Transcendence
Scored from 448 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A brilliant artificial intelligence researcher, mortally wounded by anti-technology extremists, has his consciousness uploaded into a quantum computer by his wife and best friend. As the digital version of him grows exponentially more powerful and begins reshaping the physical world, those closest to him must decide whether he is still the man they loved or a dangerous force that must be stopped.
Released in 2014, Transcendence is a drama, science-fiction and thriller film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,058 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 448 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 465 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 Transcendence 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 448.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
