Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Scored from 2,791 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Superman's presence on Earth causes both hope and fear among the public. Batman views the powerful alien as a potential threat to humanity and seeks to stop him before he can cause destruction. Meanwhile, tech entrepreneur Lex Luthor manipulates events to fuel conflict between the two heroes.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is a 2016 action, adventure and science-fiction film directed by Zack Snyder. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck and Amy Adams head the billed cast. Its certificate is PG-13. It runs 2h 31m.
The calibrated figure is built from 2,791 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 3,024 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 10,834 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 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 · 2010s (13,059 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 2,791.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
