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The King's Speech
Scored from 684 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Prince Albert, Duke of York, the second son of George V, has stammered since childhood, just as radio is making public speech unavoidable for the Royal Family. After a series of failed treatments, his wife Elizabeth engages Lionel Logue, an Australian speech therapist working in London without medical qualifications, whose consulting room requires first names and an unroyal frankness from his patient. The awkward alliance between them is tested when Edward VIII's abdication makes Bertie king as George VI, and the drift to war with Germany leads to a broadcast to the nation in September 1939. Tom Hooper's British period drama dramatises the real relationship between the two men across the 1920s and 1930s.
The King's Speech is a 2010 biography, drama and history film. It was made in the United Kingdom. It is rated R. The runtime is 118 minutes.
684 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 701 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 The King's Speech 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 684.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
