The Woke Report

540 movies released since 2012. 3,685 critic reviews. One question: how woke has cinema become?

540
Movies Analyzed
since 2012
32.8
Average Woke Score
Verdict: Based
6
Peak Woke Films
1.1% of all movies
None
Woke–Quality Link
Wokeness doesn't predict quality

The Distribution of Consciousness

Among films released since 2012, 34% score below 20. The average modern film is a based 33. Peak Woke status remains an exclusive club — just 6 films have earned it.

The Great Awakening

Average woke scores by decade across all 1,463 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

Family films top the consciousness charts at 42.4. War brings up the rear.

The Marker Landscape

Representation Casting is the most common marker, showing up in 62% of all films.Neurodivergence 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 Based?

32.1 vs 32.8
Oscar winners average 0.7 points lower than non-winners on the consciousness scale.

Based on 25 Oscar-winning films in the database

The Tell

Representation Casting
The single strongest predictor of a film's overall woke score. Representation Casting correlates at r=0.86 with the total score.

Strong positive link between this marker and total score

Critics vs. Audiences

Critics scored it 77%, audiences gave it 29% — a 48 point gap. Strange World and Captain Marvel round out the top 3.

The movie where critics and audiences disagree the most

Does the Audience Care?

Nope
Audience scores show virtually no relationship to wokeness. Viewers, like critics, appear to be reviewing the actual films.

Based on 297 movies with audience scores

The Consciousness Calendar

Aug leads the year in average consciousness at 40.1. The distribution across months reveals when studios schedule their most enlightened offerings.

Franchise Wokeness Index

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? Not quite. Critics consistently rate higher than audiences, and the gap grows with wokeness — from 15 points for the least woke films to 20 points for the most woke. Critics warm to wokier films while audiences stay flat.

The Full Picture

Every dot is a movie. The trend line is nearly flat — wokeness appears to have precisely zero bearing on critical opinion. Critics, it seems, are judging films on their merits. Shocking.

Verdict Breakdown

How do critics rate films across the consciousness spectrum? Average critic scores for each verdict category. Click any verdict to explore its films.