Film · 2020 · Films · 2020s
Hamilton
Scored from 557 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the Caribbean, arrives in New York and becomes a pivotal figure in the American Revolution and founding of the United States. Through innovative hip-hop and traditional musical styles, the film chronicles his rise from obscurity to become one of the nation's Founding Fathers, his relationships with contemporaries, and his tumultuous legacy.
Released in 2020, Hamilton is a musical, drama and history film. Thomas Kail directed it. It runs 2h 41m. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr. and Daveed Diggs head the billed cast. Its certificate is PG-13. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 557 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 603 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 408 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 Hamilton 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 557.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
