Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
The Avengers
Scored from 1,636 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
When the trickster god Loki steals the Tesseract and threatens Earth with an alien invasion, Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. assemble a team of extraordinary individuals: Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye. The mismatched heroes must overcome their clashing egos and learn to fight as a unit to defend New York City from the Chitauri army pouring through a portal in the sky.
The Avengers is a 2012 action and science-fiction film.
The calibrated figure is built from 1,636 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,718 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 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 The Avengers 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 1,636.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
