Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
Trial by Fire
Scored from 111 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A man wrongly convicted of arson for a fire that killed his family fights for exoneration, aided by a determined lawyer navigating a justice system that seems stacked against him.
Trial by Fire is a 2018 biography and drama film. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 2h 9m and carries an R certificate.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 111 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 116 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 Trial by Fire 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 111.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
