Film · 2020 · Films · 2020s
Hillbilly Elegy
Scored from 636 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A young man from Appalachia returns to his Kentucky hometown to help his struggling mother while grappling with his family's cycle of poverty, addiction, and dysfunction. As he reconnects with his grandmother and confronts his painful past, he must navigate between his ambitions and his family's needs.
Hillbilly Elegy is a 2020 drama, biography and family film directed by Ron Howard. It runs 2h and carries a PG-13 certificate. Glenn Close, Amy Adams and Owen Asztalos head the billed cast. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 636 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 667 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 305 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s 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 Hillbilly Elegy 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 636.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
