The Woke Report
1,125 movies released since 2012. 30,394 critic reviews. One question: how woke has cinema become?
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Score Distribution
How woke scores spread across analyzed movies
Among films released since 2012, 55% score below 20. The average modern film is a based 24. Peak Woke status remains an exclusive club — just 6 films have earned it.
The Great Awakening
Average woke scores by decade — tracking the rise of consciousness in cinema
Average woke scores by decade across all 2,350 movies in the database. The sharpest inflection point arrives in the 2010s, when consciousness levels jumped sharply from the prior decade. Everything below focuses on this modern era.
Genre Consciousness Index
Average woke scores by genre, ranked from most to least conscious
Documentary films top the consciousness charts at 29.9. War brings up the rear.
The Marker Landscape
How often each woke marker appears, and its average intensity when active
Representation Casting is the most common marker, showing up in 54% of all films. Climate Crusade remains cinema's final frontier.
By the Numbers
Selected findings from the data. Presented without editorial comment, which is itself a form of editorial comment.
The Academy: Secretly Woke?
Based on 96 Oscar-winning films in the database
The Tell
Strong positive link between this marker and total score
Critics vs. Audiences
The movie where critics and audiences disagree the most
Does the Audience Care?
Based on 723 movies with audience scores
The Consciousness Calendar
Average woke scores by release month — when do studios schedule their most enlightened offerings?
Dec leads the year in average consciousness at 28.7. The distribution across months reveals when studios schedule their most enlightened offerings.
Franchise Wokeness Index
Multi-film franchises ranked by average consciousness level
Multi-film franchises ranked by average consciousness level. Some franchises maintain ideological consistency; others contain multitudes.
Most Woke Franchises
Most Based Franchises
The Divergence
Do critics and audiences agree on woke films? Average ratings by woke score bracket.
Do critics and audiences agree on woke films? Not quite. Critics consistently rate higher than audiences, and the gap grows with wokeness — from -7 points for the least woke films to 5 points for the most woke. Critics warm to wokier films while audiences stay flat.
The Full Picture
Every movie plotted by woke score vs. critic score — does consciousness correlate with quality?
Every dot is a movie. The trend line suggests critics are slightly seduced by consciousness. Make of that what you will.
Verdict Breakdown
How do critics rate films across the consciousness spectrum?
How do critics rate films across the consciousness spectrum? Average critic scores for each verdict category. Click any verdict to explore its films.