Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
Scored from 29 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In 1917, a stray dog wanders onto the training grounds at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut, where the 102nd Infantry Regiment is drilling, and attaches himself to Private Robert Conroy, who names him Stubby and teaches him to salute. Smuggled aboard the troopship, Stubby follows the New England Yankee Division to the trenches of France, where his ears and nose let him warn the men of incoming shells and gas. The pair fall in with a French poilu, Gaston Baptiste, as the regiment moves through one offensive after another and Conroy's sister Margaret narrates from the letters sent home. This animated family feature is based on the true story of the most decorated dog of the First World War.
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero (2018) is a film IMDb files under the adventure, animation and family genres. The runtime is 89 minutes. It is rated PG. It was made in the United States.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 55 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 29 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 31 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero 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 29.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
