Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
Fist Fight
Scored from 144 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
On the last day of school, mild-mannered high school English teacher Andy Campbell inadvertently gets volatile history teacher Ron Strickland fired during a prank-filled senior day. In retaliation, Strickland challenges Andy to an after-school fist fight in the parking lot, and as word spreads, Andy spends the day frantically trying to talk, scheme, or sabotage his way out of the brawl.
Fist Fight is a 2017 comedy film. Its comedy subtype is Action Comedy.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 403 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 144 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 149 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Fist Fight 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 144.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
