Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
Mary Queen of Scots
Scored from 449 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Mary Queen of Scots returns from France to reclaim her throne in Scotland, but faces imprisonment by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I of England. The film follows Mary's struggle for freedom and her attempt to escape her captors, exploring the political rivalry and tension between the two powerful queens.
Released in 2018, Mary Queen of Scots is a drama, history and thriller film. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. Its certificate is R. Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie and Jack Lowden head the billed cast. Josie Rourke directed it. It runs 2h 4m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 383 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 449 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 461 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 Mary Queen of Scots 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 449.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
