Is Hamlet actually good?

Hamlet sits in the 82.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 82.4% of them.

How does Hamlet compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Hamlet lands in the 83.1% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Hamlet's score based on?

160 calibrated reviewers stand behind Hamlet's score.

1996

global pct

82.4

Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s

Hamlet

Name: Hamlet
Genre: Drama
Released: 1996

Scored from 160 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

82.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

83.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

96.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

160 calibrated reviewers

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 of its IMDb reviewers. 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.