Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Rocketman
Scored from 880 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A musical biography following Elton John from his childhood in 1950s England through his meteoric rise to stardom in the 1970s. The film chronicles his songwriting partnership with Bernie Taupin, his turbulent personal relationships, and his struggle with addiction as he navigates fame and self-acceptance.
Released in 2019, Rocketman is a drama, biography and music film. Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell and Richard Madden head the billed cast. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. Its certificate is R. It runs 2h 1m. Dexter Fletcher directed it.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,599 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 880 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 915 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Rocketman 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 880.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
