Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Million Dollar Baby
Scored from 900 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A hardened boxing trainer reluctantly takes on an ambitious female fighter as his protégé, training her for the professional circuit. Together they navigate the challenges of boxing and develop an unexpected family bond.
Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 drama and sport film starring Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. It runs 2h 12m. Clint Eastwood directed it. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 14,589 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 900 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 973 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 Million Dollar Baby 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 900.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
