Film · 2011 · Films · 2010s
Captain America: The First Avenger
Scored from 912 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
During World War II, frail Steve Rogers is transformed into a super-soldier through an experimental serum, becoming Captain America. Deployed to combat the Nazi-affiliated organization HYDRA and its leader the Red Skull, Rogers must harness his newfound strength and courage to stop HYDRA's plans for global domination.
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) is a film IMDb files under the action, adventure and science-fiction genres. It was directed by Joe Johnston. It is rated PG-13. It was made in the United States. The runtime is 124 minutes. It stars Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving and Tommy Lee Jones.
912 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 938 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 13,576 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Captain America: The First Avenger 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 912.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
