Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
The Lion King
Scored from 2,092 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A photorealistic CGI remake of the 1994 animated classic. Young lion cub Simba is the heir to the Pride Lands, but after his scheming uncle Scar orchestrates the death of his father King Mufasa, Simba is driven into exile. Growing up far from home with the carefree warthog Pumbaa and meerkat Timon, he must eventually confront his past and reclaim his rightful place as king.
The Lion King is a 2019 adventure, animation and drama film.
The calibrated figure is built from 2,092 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,234 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,987 of whom clear the calibration test. 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 Lion King 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 2,092.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
