Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Square One: Michael Jackson
Scored from 86 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A documentary arguing that the 1993 child molestation allegation against Michael Jackson began as an extortion attempt by Evan Chandler, the father of the boy involved, rather than as a complaint to police. Director Danny Wu sets out the sequence of events, the recorded telephone conversations in which Chandler discussed his intentions, the civil settlement and the tabloid coverage that surrounded the case. Interviews with people from Jackson's studio and family circle, along with journalists who covered the story, are used to build the counter-case. Released in 2019, it is an independently produced rebuttal to the accepted account of that year.
Released in 2019, Square One: Michael Jackson is a documentary film.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 86 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 98 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
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 Square One: Michael Jackson 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 86.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
