Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Richard Jewell
Scored from 545 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Atlanta, 1996: Richard Jewell, a security guard working the concert grounds at Centennial Olympic Park during the Summer Games, spots an unattended backpack, reports it and helps clear people back before the pipe bomb inside it goes off. Celebrated for days as the man who saved lives, he is then named by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as the FBI's prime suspect, and the profile that fits him — an overeager, gun-collecting police wannabe who lives with his mother — becomes the case against him. Jewell hires Watson Bryant, a small-time lawyer he once worked alongside, and cannot stop deferring to the agents building a case on him while news crews besiege the apartment. Clint Eastwood's drama draws on Marie Brenner's Vanity Fair account of the investigation.
Richard Jewell is a 2019 drama, crime and thriller film. Clint Eastwood directed it, with Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell and Kathy Bates in the cast. It is rated R. The runtime is 131 minutes. It was made in the United States.
545 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 564 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 964 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s 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 Richard Jewell 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 545.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
