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Iron Man 2
Scored from 973 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Tony Stark struggles with the deteriorating health effects of his Iron Man suit while facing new threats from Ivan Vanko, a vengeful physicist seeking revenge, and pressure from the U.S. government to surrender the technology. As corporate rival Justin Hammer attempts to replicate the suit and tensions mount, Stark must overcome personal demons and corporate espionage to survive.
Iron Man 2 is a 2010 action, science fiction and adventure film. Jon Favreau directed it. It was made in the United States. It is rated PG-13. It stars Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and Don Cheadle. The runtime is 124 minutes.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 21,108 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 973 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 996 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Iron Man 2 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 973.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
