Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Ray
Scored from 420 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A biographical drama tracing the life of legendary musician Ray Charles, from his impoverished childhood in rural Florida and the early loss of his brother and eyesight, through his rise from chitlin-circuit performer to genre-defining star who fused gospel, R&B, and country. The film follows his battles with heroin addiction, complicated relationships with women, and his stand against segregation in the Jim Crow South.
Ray (2004) is a film IMDb files under the biography, drama and music genres.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 420 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 437 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 Ray 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 420.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
