Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s
Licorice Pizza
Scored from 775 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Set in 1970s San Fernando Valley, a charismatic teenage entrepreneur and former child actor named Gary Valentine pursues an unlikely romantic connection with Alana Kane, a woman in her late twenties. As Gary navigates his various business ventures—from waterbed sales to pinball machines—the two develop a complex relationship against the backdrop of disco culture and Valley eccentricity.
Released in 2021, Licorice Pizza is a drama, comedy and romance film. Its certificate is R. It was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy. Cooper Hoffman, Alana Haim and Sean Penn head the billed cast. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 50m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 538 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 775 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 785 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Licorice Pizza 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 775.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
