Is Malcolm X actually good?

Malcolm X sits in the 88.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 88.7% of them.

How does Malcolm X compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Malcolm X lands in the 90.3% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Malcolm X's score based on?

181 calibrated reviewers stand behind Malcolm X's score.

1992

global pct

88.7

Film · 1992 · Films · 1990s

Malcolm X

Name: Malcolm X
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Released: 1992

Scored from 181 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

88.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

90.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

98.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

181 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Spike Lee's epic biographical drama traces the life of Malcolm Little, from his troubled youth and years as a Harlem hustler, through his imprisonment and conversion to the Nation of Islam under Elijah Muhammad. As Malcolm X, he rises to become a fiery civil rights leader, before a transformative pilgrimage to Mecca reshapes his views on race and faith.

Released in 1992, Malcolm X is a biography, drama and history film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. 181 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 186 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.