Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Hotel Rwanda
Scored from 483 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) manages the Belgian-owned Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali when Rwanda's 1994 genocide begins and Hutu militias turn on the Tutsi minority. A Hutu married to a Tutsi wife, Tatiana, he first hides his family and neighbours in the hotel, then becomes responsible for more than a thousand refugees as Colonel Oliver's UN peacekeepers are denied the mandate and troops to intervene. Paul trades whisky, cash and favours from his corporate contacts to buy protection from the army officers and militia leaders circling the building. Terry George's fact-based drama plays out largely inside the hotel's lobby and corridors.
Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 drama, history and war film starring Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonkwo and Joaquin Phoenix. It runs 2h 1m. Its certificate is PG-13. Terry George directed it. Its country of origin is listed as Rwanda, Belgium and Canada.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 483 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 568 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 10,895 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Hotel Rwanda 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 · 2000s (7,847 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 483.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
