Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Dolemite Is My Name
Scored from 325 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Struggling middle-aged entertainer Rudy Ray Moore reinvents himself by creating Dolemite, a foul-mouthed, rhyming pimp character drawn from stories he hears on the streets. After his raunchy comedy albums become an underground hit, Rudy gambles everything to produce an independent kung-fu blaxploitation film starring his alter ego, rallying a scrappy crew to bring his vision to the big screen.
Dolemite Is My Name is a 2019 biography, comedy and drama film.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 357 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 325 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 340 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Dolemite Is My Name 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 325.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
