Film · 2024 · Films · 2020s
Gladiator II
Scored from 1,749 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Years after the events of the original film, Lucius, a young man with a hidden past connected to Rome's gladiatorial past, is enslaved and forced to fight as a gladiator in the arena. He must navigate the blood-soaked world of ancient Rome while uncovering the truth about his heritage and challenging the empire's power structure.
Released in 2024, Gladiator II is an action, drama and adventure film. Ridley Scott directed it. It runs 2h 50m. Its certificate is R. Its country of origin is listed as the United States and the United Kingdom. Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington head the billed cast.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,987 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 1,749 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,805 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 Gladiator II 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 · 2020s (7,930 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 1,749.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
