Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
Wanderlust
Scored from 138 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A stressed New York couple loses their jobs and, on the way to crash with the husband's overbearing brother in Atlanta, stumbles upon Elysium, a free-spirited rural commune. They decide to give the alternative lifestyle a try, but the commune's eccentric residents and its charismatic, manipulative leader soon test their relationship and values.
Wanderlust (2012) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and romance genres.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 138 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 144 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,847 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 Wanderlust 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 138.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
