Film · 1968 · Films · 1960s
Romeo and Juliet
Scored from 154 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
In Verona, the feud between the Montague and Capulet houses keeps spilling into swordfights in the market square that the Prince's threats cannot stop. Romeo, a Montague, gatecrashes a masked ball at the Capulet palace, meets Juliet, and within a day the two are secretly married by Friar Laurence, who hopes the match will force their families to reconcile. When Romeo's friend Mercutio and Juliet's cousin Tybalt draw on each other in the heat of the afternoon, the tragedy the Chorus announced in the opening lines begins to close in. Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare adaptation was shot on Italian locations with unusually young leads, Leonard Whiting at seventeen and Olivia Hussey at fifteen, and scored by Nino Rota.
Released in 1968, Romeo and Juliet is a drama and romance film. It runs 2h 18m. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom and Italy. Its certificate is PG.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,778 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 154 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 166 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 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 Romeo and Juliet 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 · 1960s (1,929 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 154.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
