Film · 1962 · Films · 1960s
To Kill a Mockingbird
Scored from 467 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
In the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) is appointed to defend Tom Robinson, a Black field hand accused of raping a young white woman, Mayella Ewell. Taking the case in earnest turns much of the town against the Finch household, and the trial is watched largely through the eyes of Atticus's six-year-old daughter Scout. Between court days she, her brother Jem and their summer friend Dill dare one another toward the shuttered house of a neighbour, Boo Radley, whom none of them has ever seen. Robert Mulligan's adaptation of Harper Lee's novel, scripted by Horton Foote, holds the courtroom and the children's world in the same frame.
Released in 1962, To Kill a Mockingbird is a crime and drama film. Its certificate is Approved. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 2h 9m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 7,047 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 467 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 486 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 To Kill a Mockingbird 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 · 1960s (1,929 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 467.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
