Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s
Dhamaka
Scored from 386 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A demoted TV news anchor receives an anonymous call from a man threatening to blow up Mumbai's Bandra-Worli Sea Link, and sees the live broadcast as a chance to reclaim his career. As the crisis escalates on air, he is forced to confront the caller's demands, his network's agenda, and his own complicity in sensationalist journalism.
Released in 2021, Dhamaka is an action, crime and drama film.
The calibrated figure is built from 386 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 449 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them.
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 Dhamaka 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 386.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
