Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s
12th Fail
Scored from 392 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Manoj Kumar Sharma grows up in the Chambal region of Madhya Pradesh, where copying in the board exams is routine, until an upright deputy superintendent of police shuts the cheating down and Manoj fails his twelfth standard. Taking the officer as a model, he decides to sit the civil services examination, and makes his way from Gwalior to Mukherjee Nagar, the coaching-class quarter of Delhi, where he grinds flour, does odd jobs and studies on nothing. There he meets a fellow aspirant, Shraddha Joshi, and older candidates who have used up their attempts. Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Hindi drama, adapted from Anurag Pathak's book and starring Vikrant Massey, tracks the exam's prelims, mains and interview rounds.
12th Fail (2023) is a film IMDb files under the biography and drama genres. Its listed language is Hindi. The runtime is 147 minutes. It was made in India.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 25 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 392 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 512 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s 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 12th Fail 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 392.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
