Is Pumping Iron actually good?

Pumping Iron sits in the 85.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 85.4% of them.

How does Pumping Iron compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Pumping Iron lands in the 81.5% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Pumping Iron's score based on?

48 calibrated reviewers stand behind Pumping Iron's score.

1977

global pct

85.4

Film · 1977 · Films · 1970s

Pumping Iron

Name: Pumping Iron
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Released: 1977

Scored from 48 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

85.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

81.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

92.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

48 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Pumping Iron (1977) is a film IMDb files under the documentary and sport genres.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 48 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 50 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 613 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.