Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s
Sound of Freedom
Scored from 428 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Tim Ballard (Jim Caviezel) is a US Homeland Security agent who builds cases against men trading in child abuse imagery and becomes convinced the work does nothing for the children themselves. After a sting frees a Honduran boy whose sister is still held by traffickers, Ballard leaves the agency and goes into Colombia, working with a former cartel accountant nicknamed Vampiro and posing as a buyer at a staged island 'party' to try to reach her. Mira Sorvino plays his wife, left at home with the cost of the decision. Directed by Alejandro Monteverde and shot in 2018 before its 2023 release, the drama stages accounts given by the real Ballard and his group Operation Underground Railroad.
Sound of Freedom is a 2023 drama, thriller and crime film. It runs 2h 11m. It stars Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino and Bill Camp. It was directed by Alejandro Monteverde. It was made in the United States. It is rated PG-13.
428 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 503 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,684 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them.
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 Sound of Freedom 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 428.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
