Film · 2007 · Films · 2000s
American Gangster
Scored from 489 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Frank Lucas, a heroin dealer in Harlem, builds a massive drug empire during the Vietnam War era by smuggling heroin directly from Southeast Asia. As his operation grows into one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in New York, a determined detective begins a relentless investigation to bring him down.
Ridley Scott directed American Gangster, a crime, drama and thriller film from 2007. It stars Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe and Tom Hardy. It is rated R. The runtime is 167 minutes. It was made in the United States.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 87 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 489 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 535 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 American Gangster 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 489.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
