Film · 2013 · Films · 2010s
Dallas Buyers Club
Scored from 405 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Jean-Marc Vallée's drama, based on real events, follows Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey), a hard-living Dallas electrician and rodeo hand who is diagnosed with AIDS in 1985 and told he has thirty days to live. Denied a place on the local AZT trial, he begins smuggling unapproved antivirals and supplements in from Mexico and further afield, and with Rayon (Jared Leto), a transgender woman he meets on the hospital ward, sells memberships in a 'buyers club' that supplies the drugs for a monthly fee. As demand grows among patients with few options, Woodroof collides with the FDA, the pharmaceutical trial system and his own prejudices, while sympathetic physician Eve Saks (Jennifer Garner) is caught between him and her hospital.
Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 biography and drama film. It is rated R. The runtime is 117 minutes. It was made in the United States.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 405 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 417 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 3,716 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 Dallas Buyers Club 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 405.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
