Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Black Friday
Scored from 74 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Anurag Kashyap's Hindi-language crime drama reconstructs the 1993 Bombay serial bombings and the investigation that followed, adapting S. Hussain Zaidi's reported account. It moves between DCP Rakesh Maria, who assembles the conspiracy out of interrogations and scattered arrests, and the men who carried it out: smuggler Tiger Memon, who organizes the plot in the aftermath of the city's communal riots, and Badshah Khan, a low-level conspirator who spends years on the run. The film cuts across police procedure, fugitive hideouts and the training that preceded the attacks. Completed in 2004, its release was held up by the Indian courts until 2007.
Black Friday is a 2004 action, crime and drama film. Its listed language is Hindi. It was made in India. It is rated A (India). The runtime is 143 minutes.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 160 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 74 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 87 reviewers with at least two reviews 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 Black Friday 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 74.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
