Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Alexander
Scored from 777 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
The film chronicles Alexander the Great's rise from his youth under tutor Aristotle through his legendary military conquests across Persia and beyond. It explores his complex relationships with his mother Olympias, his father Philip II, and his companion Hephaestion, while depicting his vision to unite the ancient world under his rule.
Alexander is a 2004 epic, drama and war film starring Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie. Oliver Stone directed it. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 2h 55m. Its certificate is R.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 6,846 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 777 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 844 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Alexander 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 · 2000s (7,847 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 777.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
