Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s
Ip Man
Scored from 207 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Foshan in the 1930s is a city crowded with martial-arts schools, and Ip Man is quietly acknowledged as its finest fighter, though he keeps his Wing Chun to private sparring and refuses to take students. The Japanese occupation of 1937 strips him of his house and his wealth, leaving him hauling coal, until he learns that Chinese fighters are being matched against Japanese karateka in General Miura's garrison arena for bags of rice. Wilson Yip's loosely biographical martial-arts drama stars Donnie Yen as the master who would later teach Bruce Lee, with fight choreography by Sammo Hung.
Released in 2008, Ip Man is an action, biography and drama film. Its country of origin is listed as Hong Kong. It runs 1h 46m. Its certificate is R. It plays in Cantonese.
The calibrated figure is built from 207 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 218 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Ip Man 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 207.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
