Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s
Guardians of the Galaxy
Scored from 1,332 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
After being abducted and held captive by the Ravagers, Peter Quill is freed by Rocket and Groot. The unlikely group allies with Gamora and Drax to prevent a powerful artifact from falling into the hands of a ruthless villain. Together, these misfits must learn to work as a team to save the galaxy from destruction.
Guardians of the Galaxy is a 2014 action, comedy and science-fiction film directed by James Gunn. It runs 2h 1m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Dave Bautista head the billed cast. Its certificate is PG-13. Inside comedy it is classed as Action Comedy.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 11,625 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 1,332 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,374 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 Guardians of the Galaxy 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 1,332.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
