Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
Vice
Scored from 686 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Adam McKay's satirical biographical drama traces the political rise of Dick Cheney, from a hard-drinking Wyoming lineman to one of the most powerful vice presidents in U.S. history under George W. Bush. The film follows Cheney's quiet accumulation of executive power and his role in shaping post-9/11 policy, with Christian Bale in the lead and Amy Adams as his wife Lynne.
Vice is a 2018 biography, comedy and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Satire.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 826 of whom clear the calibration test. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 686 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 706 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 Vice 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 686.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
