Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
Amazing Grace
Scored from 127 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In late 18th-century Britain, idealistic young Member of Parliament William Wilberforce wages a decades-long campaign to abolish the slave trade. Battling political opposition, failing health, and personal doubt, he is sustained by his mentor John Newton, the former slave-ship captain turned clergyman who wrote the hymn 'Amazing Grace,' and by allies who help him push the cause through Parliament.
Amazing Grace (2006) is a film IMDb files under the biography, drama and history genres.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 127 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 130 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 Amazing Grace 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 · 2000s (7,847 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 127.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
