Is Just Mercy actually good?

Just Mercy sits in the 89.0% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 89.0% of them.

How does Just Mercy compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, Just Mercy lands in the 92.2% 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 Just Mercy's score based on?

407 calibrated reviewers stand behind Just Mercy's score.

2019

global pct

89.0

Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s

Just Mercy

Name: Just Mercy
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Released: 2019

Scored from 407 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

89.0%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

92.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

99.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

407 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Young Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson moves to Alabama to defend the wrongly condemned and those who cannot afford proper representation. He takes on the case of Walter McMillian, a Black man sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, and battles a deeply biased legal system to fight for his freedom.

Released in 2019, Just Mercy is a biography, crime and drama film.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. 407 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 430 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 960 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.