Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Scored from 43 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's documentary traces Linda Ronstadt from a musical Mexican-American family in Tucson, Arizona to 1960s Los Angeles with the folk-rock trio the Stone Poneys. Archival performance footage and Ronstadt's own narration cover her run as the biggest-selling female rock singer of the 1970s and her refusal to stay in one genre: Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance on stage, standards recorded with Nelson Riddle's orchestra, country harmony albums with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris, and the mariachi record Canciones de Mi Padre made in tribute to her father's heritage. Parton, Harris, Jackson Browne and producer Peter Asher appear as interviewees, and the film is framed by the neurological illness that ended her singing.
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (2019) is a film IMDb files under the biography, documentary and music genres. Its certificate is PG-13. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 35m.
Only 43 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 44 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 68 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 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 Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice 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 43.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
