Film · 2007 · Films · 2000s
Hairspray
Scored from 313 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In 1962 Baltimore, plus-sized teenager Tracy Turnblad dreams of dancing on a popular local TV show. After landing a spot on the program, she becomes a star and uses her newfound fame to challenge segregation and push for racial integration on the show, all while navigating teen romance and standing up to its scheming producer.
Hairspray (2007) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and musical genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 45,043 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 313 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 332 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Hairspray 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 313.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
