Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
Man of the Year
Scored from 189 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A popular political comedian decides to run for President of the United States as an independent candidate, channeling public frustration with partisan politics into a long-shot campaign. When a computer glitch in the new electronic voting system appears to hand him the election, a software company employee races to expose the truth before the results are certified.
Man of the Year (2006) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and romance genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Satire.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 5,588 of whom clear the calibration test. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 189 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 201 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Man of the Year 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 189.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
