Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Scored from 1,169 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Riggan Thomson, a washed-up actor famous for playing the superhero Birdman, prepares to make his Broadway debut with a stage adaptation while struggling with his ego, financial troubles, and the pressure to prove himself. As opening night approaches, he battles his inner demons, complicated relationships with his cast and daughter, and the blurred line between his real identity and his former blockbuster persona.
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a 2014 drama, comedy and thriller film. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy. It stars Michael Keaton, Edward Norton and Emma Stone. It was directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. It was made in the United States. It runs 1h 59m. It is rated R.
1,169 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 1,226 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 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 1,169.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
