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Spartacus
Scored from 336 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Spartacus, a Thracian born into slavery and worked in the Libyan mines, is bought by Lentulus Batiatus for his gladiator school at Capua, trained to fight to the death for Roman spectators, and there meets Varinia, a serving woman. The school revolts, and Spartacus finds himself at the head of an army of escaped slaves moving across Italy toward the coast and a way out of the Republic, while in Rome the patrician general Crassus and the populist senator Gracchus use the rebellion against each other. Stanley Kubrick directed this widescreen Roman epic for producer-star Kirk Douglas, from Dalton Trumbo's adaptation of Howard Fast's novel, the credit that broke the blacklist, with Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov and Charles Laughton.
Spartacus (1960) is a film IMDb files under the adventure, biography and drama genres. Its certificate is PG-13. It runs 3h 17m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 336 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 344 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 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 Spartacus 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 · 1960s (1,929 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 336.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
