Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
All the King's Men
Scored from 141 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In Louisiana, idealistic country lawyer Willie Stark rises from obscurity to become a populist governor championing the common man against entrenched political interests. As power corrupts his ideals, journalist Jack Burden becomes drawn into Stark's inner circle and is enlisted to dig up dirt on Judge Irwin, a respected family friend, with consequences that entangle Jack's own past.
Released in 2006, All the King's Men is a drama and thriller film.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 141 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 144 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 All the King's Men 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 141.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
