Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
Lucy and Desi
Scored from 38 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Amy Poehler's documentary traces Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz from their beginnings — she a contract player stuck in B-pictures at RKO, he a Cuban bandleader whose family fled Santiago after the 1933 revolution — through the marriage and the sitcom that made them the most recognisable couple in America. Home movies, personal audio recordings and archival footage follow the making of I Love Lucy and the growth of Desilu, the company that gave them unusual control over their own work. Interviews with their children Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill and Desi Arnaz Jr., plus Carol Burnett, Bette Midler and Norman Lear, set the professional partnership against the strain it placed on the marriage.
Lucy and Desi is a 2022 biography, comedy and documentary film. It was made in the United States. It is rated PG. The runtime is 103 minutes.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 18 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 38 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 41 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
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 Lucy and Desi 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 38.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
