Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
Lincoln
Scored from 758 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
During the final months of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln pursues a political strategy to end slavery by pushing the 13th Amendment through Congress. Facing opposition from his own cabinet and the complexities of wartime politics, Lincoln navigates both personal tragedy and constitutional crisis to preserve the Union.
Released in 2012, Lincoln is a drama, biography and history film. Its certificate is PG-13. Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones head the billed cast. Steven Spielberg directed it. It runs 2h 30m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 6,959 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 758 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 784 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s 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 Lincoln 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 · 2010s (13,059 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 758.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
