Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
O.J.: Made in America
Scored from 75 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Ezra Edelman's five-part, nearly eight-hour documentary sets O.J. Simpson's life against the history of race and policing in Los Angeles. It tracks him from a San Francisco housing project to Heisman-winning stardom at USC, the Buffalo Bills, Hertz commercials and film roles, and the deliberate distance he kept from Black political causes. In parallel it lays out decades of LAPD conduct, from Watts through Eula Love, Latasha Harlins and Rodney King, that shaped how the city would receive the 1994 killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Archival footage and new interviews with friends, lawyers, detectives, jurors and reporters carry the account into the trial that followed.
O.J.: Made in America is a 2016 biography, crime and documentary film. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is TV-MA. It runs 7h 47m.
Only 75 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 75 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them.
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 O.J.: Made in America 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 75.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
