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Shakespeare in Love (1998) poster
1998
global pct
73.4

Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s

Shakespeare in Love

Scored from 519 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

73.4%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
73.6%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
94.2%
AI-adjusted percentile
519 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A fictionalized account of William Shakespeare's life during the writing of Romeo and Juliet, as he becomes romantically entangled with a young noblewoman disguised as a man. The film blends historical figures with invented romance as Shakespeare finds inspiration for his masterpiece.

Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 romance, comedy and drama film starring Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow and Judi Dench. Its certificate is R. It runs 2h 3m. John Madden directed it. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy. Its country of origin is listed as the United States and the United Kingdom.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 6,423 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 519 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 542 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.

RomanceComedyDrama

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Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers
519

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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