Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Scored from 265 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Armando Iannucci's vibrant, comic adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel follows the life of David Copperfield (Dev Patel) from his troubled childhood under a cruel stepfather through his colorful journey to becoming a writer. Along the way he encounters a memorable cast of eccentrics, including the perpetually indebted Mr. Micawber, the kindly Aunt Betsey Trotwood, and the scheming Uriah Heep, as he searches for his place in Victorian England.
The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and drama genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 265 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 279 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 102 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Personal History of David Copperfield 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 265.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
