Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
1917
Scored from 2,812 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Two young British soldiers are ordered to deliver an urgent message across No Man's Land during World War I. Racing against time through decimated trenches and shell-torn terrain, they must cross enemy lines to prevent a costly military assault and save thousands of lives.
1917 is a 2019 war, drama and thriller film starring George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman and Mark Strong. Sam Mendes directed it. Its certificate is R. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom and the United States. It runs 1h 59m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,847 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 2,812 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,966 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 1917 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 2,812.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
