Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s
Rocky Balboa
Scored from 684 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
After retiring from professional boxing, a now-elderly Rocky Balboa decides to return to the ring for one final exhibition match against the current heavyweight champion. Training alone with his old mentor, Rocky aims to prove to himself that he still has what it takes to step into the ring.
Released in 2006, Rocky Balboa is a drama and sport film. Its certificate is PG. Sylvester Stallone directed it. Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Tarver and Burt Young head the billed cast. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 42m.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 684 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 734 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 16,004 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Rocky Balboa 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 684.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
