Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Scored from 278 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A stark, black-and-white retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy. A Scottish lord, spurred by a prophecy from three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, murders the king to seize the throne, only to spiral into paranoia, tyranny, and madness as he tries to hold onto power.
Released in 2021, The Tragedy of Macbeth is a drama, fantasy and mystery film.
7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 278 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 283 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 188 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 Tragedy of Macbeth 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 278.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
