Film · 2010 · Films · 2010s
Senna
Scored from 110 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Documentary on the Brazilian Formula One driver Ayrton Senna, assembled entirely from archival race footage, home video, television broadcasts and drivers'-briefing recordings, with no on-camera interviews. Directed by Asif Kapadia, it follows him from karting and his 1984 debut through his championship seasons at McLaren, tracking his belief that racing was a matter of instinct and purity against a sport increasingly run on politics and money. At its centre are his rivalry with teammate Alain Prost and his running conflict with FIA president Jean-Marie Balestre over rulings that went against him.
Released in 2010, Senna is a biography, documentary and sport film. Its certificate is PG. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. It runs 1h 46m.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 110 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 110 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 Senna 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 · 2010s (13,059 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 110.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
