Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s
Belfast
Scored from 521 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A young boy grows up in Belfast during the late 1960s as political conflict erupts in his city. Blending drama and humor, the semi-autobiographical film follows his coming-of-age journey and his working-class family's attempt to maintain stability amid the early troubles.
Released in 2021, Belfast is a drama, comedy and coming-of-age film. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. Its certificate is PG-13. It was directed by Kenneth Branagh. It runs 1h 38m. Jude Hill, Caitríona Balfe and Jamie Dornan head the billed cast.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 419 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 521 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 538 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 Belfast 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 521.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
