Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
Sully
Scored from 522 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
Clint Eastwood's drama recounts the 2009 'Miracle on the Hudson,' when veteran pilot Captain Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River after a bird strike disabled both engines, saving all 155 people aboard. As the public hails him a hero, Sully faces a grueling NTSB investigation questioning whether he could have safely returned to an airport, forcing him to defend the split-second judgment that defined his career.
Sully is a 2016 biography, drama and history film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,630 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 522 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 532 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 Sully 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 522.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
