Is Spotlight actually good?

Spotlight sits in the 94.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 94.4% of them.

How does Spotlight compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, Spotlight lands in the 96.2% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Spotlight's score based on?

663 calibrated reviewers stand behind Spotlight's score.

2015

global pct

94.4

Film · 2015 · Films · 2010s

Spotlight

Name: Spotlight
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Released: 2015

Scored from 663 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

94.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

96.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

99.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

663 calibrated reviewers

Summary

The Boston Globe's investigative 'Spotlight' team uncovers a massive, decades-long pattern of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests in the Boston archdiocese and the systemic cover-up by the Church. As the reporters dig through court records, interview survivors, and chase reluctant sources, they confront institutional resistance and their own complicity in a community that long looked away.

Released in 2015, Spotlight is a biography, crime and drama film.

13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,505 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 663 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 682 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.