Is Ali actually good?

Ali sits in the 28.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 28.7% of them.

How does Ali compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Ali lands in the 31.6% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Ali's score based on?

288 calibrated reviewers stand behind Ali's score.

2001

global pct

28.7

Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s

Ali

Name: Ali
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Released: 2001

Scored from 288 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

28.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

31.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

10.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

288 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Michael Mann's biopic follows boxer Muhammad Ali across a turbulent decade, from his 1964 title win over Sonny Liston through his conversion to Islam, his refusal of the Vietnam draft and the resulting exile from boxing, and his comeback culminating in the 'Rumble in the Jungle' against George Foreman in Zaire. Will Smith stars.

Ali (2001) is a film IMDb files under the biography, drama and sport genres.

288 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 302 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,141 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.