Film · 2020 · Films · 2020s
Uncle Tom
Scored from 159 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A documentary directed by Justin Malone and anchored by radio host Larry Elder, subtitled 'An Oral History of the American Black Conservative.' It gathers Black conservatives — among them Candace Owens, Herman Cain, Allen West, Carol Swain and Brandon Tatum — to recount how they arrived at their politics and the hostility they met for it, intercut with archival material tracing Black political alignment across the twentieth century. The organising conflict is the epithet of the title: the charge of racial betrayal leveled at Black Americans who break with the Democratic Party. It is advocacy filmmaking, with subjects addressing the camera directly and no opposing interviews.
Uncle Tom (2020) is a film IMDb files under the documentary and history genres. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 46m.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 159 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 205 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 28 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 Uncle Tom 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 159.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
