Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
Beauty and the Beast
Scored from 907 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A young bookish woman named Belle becomes imprisoned in an enchanted castle by the Beast, a prince cursed to live as a fearsome creature. As she gets to know him, she discovers his kind heart beneath his monstrous exterior and falls in love with him. This love awakens the castle's enchanted inhabitants and begins to break an ancient curse.
Released in 2017, Beauty and the Beast is a fantasy, romance and drama film. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 2h 9m and carries a PG certificate. Emma Watson, Dan Stevens and Luke Evans head the billed cast. Bill Condon directed it.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,672 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 907 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 956 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 Beauty and the Beast 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 907.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
