Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s
Red, White & Royal Blue
Scored from 230 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
When a public altercation between Alex Claremont-Diaz, the First Son of the United States, and Prince Henry of Wales threatens to damage US-UK relations, the two are forced to stage a fake friendship for the cameras. As they spend more time together, their animosity gives way to an unexpected romance that they must navigate against the pressures of politics, family, and global scrutiny.
Red, White & Royal Blue (2023) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and romance genres. Its comedy subtype is Romcom.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 160 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 230 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 250 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Red, White & Royal Blue 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 230.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
