Film · 1995 · Films · 1990s
Pocahontas
Scored from 235 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
In 17th-century Virginia, English settlers arrive seeking gold under the command of the ambitious Governor Ratcliffe, while Captain John Smith ventures into the wilderness and meets Pocahontas, the spirited daughter of the local Powhatan chief. As their unlikely bond grows, rising tensions between the colonists and her tribe push both peoples toward war, forcing Pocahontas to choose between duty to her people and the path her heart urges.
Released in 1995, Pocahontas is an adventure, animation and drama film.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 235 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 241 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 12,162 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 Pocahontas 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 235.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
