Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Little Women
Scored from 1,013 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
The March sisters—Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy—navigate coming of age during the American Civil War era, each pursuing their own path in love, art, and ambition. As the family faces financial hardship and personal challenges, Jo's determination to become a writer drives the narrative while her sisters find their own ways forward. The film balances the sisters' individual dreams with family bonds, exploring themes of sacrifice, independence, and love.
Little Women is a 2019 drama, romance and period drama film. It was directed by Greta Gerwig. The runtime is 135 minutes. It is rated PG. It stars Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh and Emma Watson. It was made in the United States.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. 1,013 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 1,052 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,299 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Little Women 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 1,013.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
