Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s
Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In
Scored from 26 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A documentary portrait of the Manchester United manager, directed by his son Jason Ferguson and framed by the 2018 brain haemorrhage that nearly took Ferguson's memory. Recovering, he retells his life to camera: a Govan childhood beside the Clydeside shipyards, a playing career that included Rangers, then management at East Stirlingshire, St Mirren and Aberdeen, where he broke the Old Firm's grip and won the 1983 European Cup Winners' Cup. The larger part covers his 26 years at Old Trafford, including the 1999 treble, told through archive footage and conversation between father and son. Memory and its fragility are as much the subject as football.
Released in 2021, Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In is a biography, documentary and sport film. The runtime is 106 minutes. It was made in the United Kingdom.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 4 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 26 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 27 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
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 Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In 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 · 2020s (7,930 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 26.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
