Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s
Origin
Scored from 62 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Adapted from Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Ava DuVernay's film follows Wilkerson herself, played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, as she takes up the killing of Trayvon Martin and works her way toward a larger thesis: that American racism is better understood as a caste system. The research carries her to the racial laws of Nazi Germany and to the treatment of Dalits in India, staged as dramatized historical episodes threaded through the present-day story. At the same time she is absorbing a run of personal losses that shadow the writing of the book. Jon Bernthal, Niecy Nash-Betts, Vera Farmiga, Audra McDonald and Nick Offerman fill out the ensemble.
Released in 2023, Origin is a drama and history film. It runs 2h 15m and carries a PG-13 certificate. It was made in the United States.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 98 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 62 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 64 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Origin 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 62.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
