Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
Anna and the King
Scored from 121 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
In 1860s Siam, British widow Anna Leonowens arrives with her young son to tutor the many children and wives of King Mongkut. As she navigates the rigid customs of the royal court, she and the proud, intellectually curious king develop a guarded mutual respect that deepens into something more, even as political turmoil threatens the kingdom.
Anna and the King is a 1999 drama, history and romance film.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,392 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 121 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 127 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 Anna and the King 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 · 1990s (4,082 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 121.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
