Is Amy actually good?

Amy sits in the 91.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 91.7% of them. That figure is a rank, not a star average: each reviewer's score is re-centred on their own rating history before anything is compared, so a generous grader and a harsh one count the same.

How does Amy compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, Amy lands in the 94.3% 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 Amy's score based on?

115 reviewers cleared the calibration test for Amy — meaning their rating history varies enough to place a personal baseline. Reviewers who rate everything the same carry no information and are excluded rather than averaged in.

How is the Amy score calculated?

Every review is scored relative to the reviewer's own average rather than taken at face value, then each calibrated reviewer is weighted equally and the result is expressed as a percentile against the full corpus. The output is a rank among peers, which is why it is published as a percentile and never as a star rating.

2015

global pct

91.7

Film · 2015 · Films · 2010s

Amy

Name: Amy
Genre: Biography, Documentary, Music
Released: 2015
Duration: 2 h 8 min

Scored from 115 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

91.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

94.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

98.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

115 calibrated reviewers, thin samples pulled to the mean

Summary

Asif Kapadia's documentary assembles the life of Amy Winehouse almost entirely from existing material: camcorder footage shot by friends, studio outtakes, paparazzi video, television appearances and handwritten lyrics, with interviews heard only in voiceover and no on-camera talking heads. It follows her from jazz-obsessed teenager in north London through the success of Frank and Back to Black to the tabloid scrutiny that arrived with global fame. Her songwriting is set against her bulimia and addiction, her marriage to Blake Fielder-Civil, and her contested relationships with her father Mitch and her management. The tension the film builds is between Winehouse as a working musician and the apparatus assembled around her.

Amy (2015) is a film IMDb files under the biography, documentary and music genres. It is rated R. The runtime is 128 minutes. It was made in the United Kingdom.

13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 676 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 115 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 117 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

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 Amy 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 115.