Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s
Hancock
Scored from 590 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A superhero with destructive methods and a drinking problem is persuaded by a public relations expert to rehabilitate his image and become a better hero. As Hancock attempts to turn his life around, he must confront his past and face a mysterious threat that tests his newfound commitment to doing good.
Hancock is a 2008 action, comedy and superhero film. It runs 1h 32m and carries a PG-13 certificate. It was directed by Peter Berg. It was made in the United States. Its comedy subtype is Action Comedy. It stars Will Smith, Jason Bateman and Charlize Theron.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 32,289 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 590 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 600 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.
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 Hancock 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 590.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
