Film · 2025 · Films · 2020s
Superman
Scored from 2,903 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
James Gunn's reboot of the DC superhero, with David Corenswet as Clark Kent/Superman navigating his dual heritage as a Kryptonian raised on Earth. Operating openly as a hero in Metropolis, he clashes with billionaire tech mogul Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult), who schemes to discredit and destroy him, while his relationship with Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan) deepens. The film also introduces other metahumans including Mister Terrific, Hawkgirl, and Green Lantern Guy Gardner.
Released in 2025, Superman is an action, adventure and science-fiction film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,510 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 2,903 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 3,109 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Superman 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 2,903.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
