Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Shazam!
Scored from 1,780 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Fourteen-year-old foster kid Billy Batson meets a mysterious wizard who grants him the power to transform into an adult superhero whenever he speaks the word 'Shazam.' Billy must learn to control his newfound superpowers—including strength, flight, and lightning manipulation—while protecting his newfound family and discovering what true heroism means.
Shazam! is a 2019 action, comedy and fantasy film directed by David F. Sandberg. It runs 2h 12m. Inside comedy it is classed as Action Comedy. Its certificate is PG-13. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Zachary Levi, Asher Angel and Mark Strong head the billed cast.
The calibrated figure is built from 1,780 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,850 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,918 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Shazam! 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 1,780.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
