Film · 2013 · Films · 2010s
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Scored from 136 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A biographical sports drama about Indian sprinter Milkha Singh, who rose from the trauma of losing his family during the Partition of India to become one of the country's greatest athletes. The film traces his journey from refugee camps and petty crime to joining the Indian Army, where his running talent is discovered, eventually leading him to compete on the world stage including the 1960 Rome Olympics.
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is a 2013 biography, drama and sport film.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 103 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 136 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 153 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 Bhaag Milkha Bhaag 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 136.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
