Film · 2015 · Films · 2010s
Eddie the Eagle
Scored from 201 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Based on a true story, Eddie Edwards is a determined but unathletic British dreamer who refuses to give up on his Olympic ambitions. After being cut from skiing, he turns to ski jumping, an event Britain hasn't competed in for decades, and recruits a reluctant, washed-up former jumper to coach him. His unlikely quest to qualify for the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics turns him into an underdog folk hero.
Eddie the Eagle is a 2015 adventure, biography and comedy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 201 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 205 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 766 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Eddie the Eagle 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 201.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
