Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Scored from 1,326 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
The Guardians of the Galaxy discover that one of their own faces imminent danger, forcing them to confront a powerful enemy from Rocket's past—the High Evolutionary—and his sinister plans. As the team races to protect their own, they are drawn into a conflict that will test the bonds of their makeshift family.
Released in 2023, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is an action, comedy and science fiction film. Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Dave Bautista head the billed cast. Inside comedy it is classed as Action Comedy. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. James Gunn directed it. Its certificate is PG-13. It runs 2h 30m.
The calibrated figure is built from 1,326 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,402 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 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, 3,407 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 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 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 1,326.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
