Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s
The Big Bull
Scored from 281 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Inspired by real events, the film follows Hemant Shah, an ambitious stockbroker who rises from modest beginnings to become one of the most powerful figures on the Indian stock market during the 1980s and 1990s. As his wealth and influence grow, he orchestrates a massive financial scam that eventually draws the attention of regulators and journalists, leading to his dramatic downfall.
The Big Bull (2021) is a film IMDb files under the biography, crime and drama genres.
7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 281 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 417 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Big Bull 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 281.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
