Film · 2000 · Films · 2000s
Gladiator
Scored from 1,955 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A powerful Roman general is betrayed and sold into slavery following the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Forced to fight as a gladiator in the arena, he seeks revenge against the corrupt Commodus who murdered his family and seized the throne.
Gladiator is a 2000 drama, action and adventure film. It was made in the United States. It is rated R. It stars Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix and Connie Nielsen. The runtime is 155 minutes. It was directed by Ridley Scott.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 1,955 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 2,115 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 164,179 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Gladiator 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 1,955.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
