Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
Green Book
Scored from 1,503 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In 1962, Tony 'Lip' Vallelonga, an Italian-American bouncer from the Bronx, is out of work while the Copacabana closes for renovations and takes a job driving Dr. Don Shirley, a Black classical and jazz pianist, on a concert tour through the Midwest and the Deep South. Shirley's label gives Tony a copy of The Negro Motorist Green Book, the guide to hotels and restaurants that would serve Black travellers, and the two spend weeks in a car together as the bookings take them into increasingly hostile territory. Peter Farrelly's comedy-drama, based on the real Vallelonga's account of the trip, sets the two men's opposite tempers against the segregation they meet on the road.
Green Book is a 2018 drama, comedy and biography film directed by Peter Farrelly. The runtime is 130 minutes. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali and Linda Cardellini head the billed cast. Its certificate is PG-13.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 1,503 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,598 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,384 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 Green Book 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 · 2010s (13,059 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 1,503.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
