Film · 2020 · Films · 2020s
Black Is King
Scored from 123 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A visual album and musical film from Beyonce, reimagining the story of The Lion King through the journey of a young African prince who loses his way and must reconnect with his heritage, identity, and ancestral roots. Blending music, dance, and striking visuals across African landscapes, it celebrates Black culture, family, and self-discovery as the prince grows into his destiny as king.
Black Is King (2020) is a film IMDb files under the adventure, drama and fantasy genres.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 123 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 154 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 Black Is 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 · 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 123.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
