Film · 2024 · Films · 2020s
Challengers
Scored from 579 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A tennis drama centered on two childhood best friends who become professional rivals on the court. Years later, a chance encounter at a tournament reignites their complicated relationship, forcing them to confront their shared past and the woman who came between them.
Challengers is a 2024 drama, romance and thriller film starring Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is R. Luca Guadagnino directed it. It runs 2h 11m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 671 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 579 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 593 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 Challengers 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 · 2020s (7,930 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 579.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
