Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s
Death Race
Scored from 243 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In a near-future America where prisons are run for profit, convicted inmates compete in a brutal televised car race called Death Race, where weaponized vehicles battle for survival and the chance at freedom. Framed for his wife's murder, former race car driver Jensen Ames is coerced by the warden into assuming the masked persona of the legendary driver Frankenstein to boost ratings, while plotting his own escape.
Released in 2008, Death Race is an action, science-fiction and thriller film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 9,460 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 243 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 245 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 Death Race 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 243.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
