Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s
The Little Mermaid
Scored from 704 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A young mermaid princess named Ariel, fascinated by the human world, makes a dangerous bargain with the sea witch Ursula to trade her voice for legs so she can pursue Prince Eric on land. This live-action remake of the 1989 animated Disney film stars Halle Bailey as Ariel and features new songs alongside the classic score.
Released in 2023, The Little Mermaid is an adventure, family and fantasy film.
704 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 770 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,025 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them.
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 Little Mermaid 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 · 2020s (7,930 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 704.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
