Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s
Bruce Almighty
Scored from 458 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A frustrated news reporter encounters God and is granted divine powers for one week to do as he pleases. Initially using the abilities for personal gain and revenge, he gradually discovers that true power lies in compassion and understanding others' needs.
Bruce Almighty is a 2003 comedy, fantasy and drama film directed by Tom Shadyac. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy. It runs 1h 41m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston and Morgan Freeman head the billed cast. Its certificate is PG-13.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 458 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 475 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 289,484 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Bruce Almighty 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 458.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
