Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s
Candyman
Scored from 906 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 artist living in Chicago becomes obsessed with the urban legend of Candyman, a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand. As he explores the legend's origins in the city's history, he uncovers connections to systemic racism and his own community.
Released in 2021, Candyman is a horror, drama and thriller film. The runtime is 91 minutes. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett head the billed cast. Its certificate is R. Nia DaCosta directed it. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 700 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 906 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 947 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Candyman 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 906.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
