Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s
Maestro
Scored from 436 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A biographical drama following the life of legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein as he rises to prominence with the New York Philharmonic while navigating his personal struggles and complex family relationships. The film explores his groundbreaking career, his passion for music, and the tensions between his public success and private life.
Maestro is a 2023 drama, biography and music film directed by Bradley Cooper. Its certificate is PG-13. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan and Matt Brock head the billed cast. It runs 2h 9m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 378 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 436 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 445 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Maestro 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 436.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
