Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s
Chicago
Scored from 713 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In 1920s Chicago, Roxie Hart murders her lover and is imprisoned. She befriends fellow inmate Velma Kelly, a cabaret performer accused of killing her husband and sister. Together, they hire slick defense attorney Billy Flynn and exploit media sensationalism to transform themselves from criminals into celebrities.
Chicago is a 2002 musical, crime and drama film starring Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere. Its certificate is PG-13. Rob Marshall directed it. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 53m. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 713 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 743 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 16,090 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 Chicago 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 · 2000s (7,847 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 713.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
