Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s
Coming to America
Scored from 224 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Akeem, the pampered crown prince of the fictional African nation of Zamunda, rejects an arranged marriage and travels to Queens, New York with his loyal attendant Semmi to find a wife who will love him for himself rather than his royal title. Disguising himself as a poor foreign student, he takes a job at a fast-food restaurant and falls for the owner's strong-willed daughter.
Coming to America (1988) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and romance genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Romcom.
The calibrated figure is built from 224 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 233 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 8,074 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 Coming to America 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 · 1980s (3,141 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 224.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
