Film · 2013 · Films · 2010s
42
Scored from 275 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
The true story of Jackie Robinson, who in 1947 broke Major League Baseball's color barrier when Brooklyn Dodgers executive Branch Rickey signed him to the team. Facing virulent racism from opposing players, fans, and even teammates, Robinson must channel his anger into his play while Rickey shields and supports him through the historic season.
42 is a 2013 biography, drama and sport film.
The calibrated figure is built from 275 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 280 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,845 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 42 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 · 2010s (13,059 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 275.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
