Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
Hocus Pocus 2
Scored from 514 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
The Sanderson Sisters are accidentally resurrected in present-day Salem, Massachusetts by three young girls. Now the witches must navigate the modern world while pursuing their dark magical agenda and clashing with the teens who awakened them.
Released in 2022, Hocus Pocus 2 is a fantasy, comedy and horror film. Its certificate is PG. It runs 1h 44m. Anne Fletcher directed it. Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy head the billed cast. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 514 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 544 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 359 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them.
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 Hocus Pocus 2 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 514.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
