Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
Dangal
Scored from 333 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A former wrestler in rural India trains his two daughters, Geeta and Babita, to become world-class wrestlers in a sport dominated by men. Defying social norms and a skeptical community, the family pursues international glory, with Geeta rising through the national system toward a historic Commonwealth Games run. Based on the true story of Mahavir Singh Phogat and his daughters.
Dangal (2016) is a film IMDb files under the action, biography and drama genres.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 80 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 333 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 394 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them.
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 Dangal 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 333.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
