Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s
Being the Ricardos
Scored from 574 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A portrait of a week in 1952 during the production of 'I Love Lucy,' following the creative and personal tensions between married stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. As they navigate their groundbreaking television show, professional ambitions, and troubled marriage, the couple faces mounting pressures from industry politics and their own conflicting visions for their career and relationship.
Released in 2021, Being the Ricardos is a drama and biography film. The runtime is 131 minutes. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem and J.K. Simmons head the billed cast. Its certificate is PG-13. Amy Sherman-Palladino directed it.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 574 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 583 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 267 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Being the Ricardos 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 · 2020s (7,930 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 574.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
