Is Akeelah and the Bee actually good?

Akeelah and the Bee sits in the 87.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 87.4% of them.

How does Akeelah and the Bee compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Akeelah and the Bee lands in the 91.9% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Akeelah and the Bee's score based on?

121 calibrated reviewers stand behind Akeelah and the Bee's score.

2006

global pct

87.4

Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s

Akeelah and the Bee

Name: Akeelah and the Bee
Genre: Drama, Family
Released: 2006

Scored from 121 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

87.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

91.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

97.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

121 calibrated reviewers

Summary

An eleven-year-old girl from a tough South Los Angeles neighborhood discovers she has a gift for spelling. With the reluctant guidance of a demanding English professor and the support of her struggling single mother, she trains to compete against more privileged kids on her way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Akeelah and the Bee is a 2006 drama and family film.

The calibrated figure is built from 121 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 132 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,207 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is Akeelah and the Bee (2006) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 121
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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