Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Scored from 495 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Ron Burgundy is a prominent San Diego news anchor in the 1970s whose dominance is threatened when an ambitious female reporter joins his team. As she rises through the ranks, Ron must confront his insecurity and jealousy while competing to maintain his status. The film follows their professional rivalry and romantic tension as Ron attempts to preserve his on-air supremacy.
Released in 2004, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a comedy and satire film. Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate and Paul Rudd head the billed cast. Its certificate is PG-13. It runs 1h 32m. Adam McKay directed it. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 495 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 511 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 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 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 495.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
