Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
Matilda: The Musical
Scored from 166 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A brilliant, book-loving young girl with neglectful parents is sent to Crunchem Hall, a school ruled by the cruel headmistress Miss Trunchbull. With the support of her kind teacher Miss Honey, Matilda discovers she has extraordinary telekinetic powers and rallies her classmates to stand up against tyranny. Adapted from the Royal Shakespeare Company stage musical based on Roald Dahl's novel.
Released in 2022, Matilda: The Musical is a comedy, drama and family film. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus. 166 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 175 reviewers with at least two reviews each 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 Matilda: The Musical 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 166.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
