The Woke Report
540 movies released since 2012. 3,685 critic reviews. One question: how woke has cinema become?
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?
Based on 25 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 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.