Film · 2024 · Films · 2020s
Civil War
Scored from 1,627 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Two photojournalists navigate a fractured America to document the human cost of an ongoing civil conflict. As they journey toward the front lines, they confront the devastating realities of war and their role in bearing witness to it.
Released in 2024, Civil War is a drama, war and thriller film. Its certificate is R. Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura and Cailee Spaeny head the billed cast. It runs 1h 49m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Alex Garland directed it.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 593 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 1,627 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,686 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them.
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 Civil War 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 1,627.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
