Film · 1964 · Films · 1960s
Hamlet
Scored from 26 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Grigori Kozintsev's Soviet version of Shakespeare, shot in black-and-white widescreen on the Baltic coast, uses Boris Pasternak's Russian translation and a score by Dmitri Shostakovich. Innokenty Smoktunovsky plays the prince, who rides home to Elsinore to find his father dead, his uncle Claudius crowned, and his mother Gertrude already remarried. When the dead king's ghost names Claudius as the murderer, Hamlet feigns madness while he tests the accusation, staging a play before the court and turning on Ophelia, daughter of the counsellor Polonius. Kozintsev pitches the prince's private doubt against stone, sea and crowds, making the castle itself a watchful, fortified state.
Released in 1964, Hamlet is a drama film. The runtime is 140 minutes. It was made in the Soviet Union. Its listed language is Russian.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them. Only 26 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 27 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
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 Hamlet 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 · 1960s (1,929 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 26.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
