Is 12th Fail actually good?

12th Fail sits in the 94.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 94.8% of them.

How does 12th Fail compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2020s, 12th Fail lands in the 96.1% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is 12th Fail's score based on?

392 calibrated reviewers stand behind 12th Fail's score.

2023

global pct

94.8

Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s

12th Fail

Name: 12th Fail
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: 2023

Scored from 392 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).

94.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

96.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles

99.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

392 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Based on a true story, this Hindi-language drama follows Manoj Kumar Sharma, a young man from a poor village in Chambal who fails his 12th-grade exams. Refusing to give up, he moves to Delhi and endures years of grinding poverty, menial jobs, and repeated setbacks while preparing for the brutally competitive UPSC civil services examination to become an IPS officer.

12th Fail (2023) is a film IMDb files under the biography and drama genres.

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 are calibrated for this title, 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.