Is Amistad actually good?

Amistad sits in the 70.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 70.7% of them.

How does Amistad compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Amistad lands in the 70.4% 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 Amistad's score based on?

187 calibrated reviewers stand behind Amistad's score.

1997

global pct

70.7

Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s

Amistad

Name: Amistad
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Released: 1997

Scored from 187 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

70.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

70.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

90.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

187 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1839, enslaved Africans aboard the Spanish ship La Amistad revolt and seize control, only to be captured off the U.S. coast and put on trial. As competing claims over their fate reach the Supreme Court, a young attorney and a former president take up their cause in a landmark battle over freedom and human rights.

Released in 1997, Amistad is a biography, drama and history film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,516 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 187 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 191 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.