Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s
Hamlet
Scored from 160 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Kenneth Branagh's full-text adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy follows Prince Hamlet of Denmark, who is visited by the ghost of his murdered father and learns that his uncle Claudius, now king and married to Hamlet's mother Gertrude, is the killer. Torn between grief, doubt, and the demand for revenge, Hamlet feigns madness and schemes against the court, drawing Ophelia, Polonius, and Laertes into a widening spiral of betrayal.
Hamlet is a 1996 drama film.
The calibrated figure is built from 160 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 165 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 80 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 · 1990s (4,082 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 160.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
