Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
Bobby
Scored from 184 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
On June 5, 1968, the lives of twenty-two people intersect at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on the day Senator Robert F. Kennedy is to give a victory speech after winning the California Democratic primary. Hotel staff, guests, campaign workers, and patrons grapple with personal struggles against the backdrop of a turbulent America, their stories converging as the night ends in tragedy.
Released in 2006, Bobby is a biography, drama and history film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 7 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 184 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 190 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 Bobby 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 184.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
