Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
The Longest Yard
Scored from 264 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A disgraced former NFL quarterback (Adam Sandler) is sent to prison, where the warden coerces him into assembling a team of inmates to play a brutal exhibition football game against the prison guards. With help from a veteran inmate coach (Burt Reynolds), he trains the convicts and must decide where his loyalties lie as the high-stakes game approaches.
The Longest Yard is a 2005 comedy, crime and sport film. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.
The calibrated figure is built from 264 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 271 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Longest Yard 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 · 2000s (7,847 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 264.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
