Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s
The Promised Land
Scored from 98 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Nikolaj Arcel's Danish historical drama, adapted from Ida Jessen's novel The Captain and Ann Barbara. In 1755, Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen), the illegitimate son of a maid who has spent twenty-five years in the German army, petitions the royal treasury for the right to settle and cultivate the Jutland heath — a barren, wind-scoured expanse that has defeated everyone before him — in exchange for a noble title and an estate. He works the land with two runaway serfs, Ann Barbara and Johannes, and a Romani girl the settlers shun, while Frederik de Schinkel, the young magistrate whose estate borders the heath, insists the ground is legally his. De Schinkel's response escalates from insult to open violence.
Released in 2023, The Promised Land is an action, biography and drama film. It plays in Danish. Its country of origin is listed as Denmark. It runs 2h 7m and carries an R certificate.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 67 of whom clear the calibration test. Only 98 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 104 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Promised Land 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 98.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
