Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s
Mulan
Scored from 330 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
To save her ailing father from conscription into the Imperial Army, a spirited young Chinese woman named Mulan disguises herself as a man and takes his place. Aided by a small dragon guardian named Mushu, she trains alongside fellow recruits and must prove her worth as a soldier while concealing her identity, all as the Hun army threatens the Emperor.
Mulan is a 1998 adventure, animation and comedy film.
The calibrated figure is built from 330 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 339 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 14,580 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Mulan 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 · 1990s (4,082 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 330.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
