Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
Ek Villain Returns
Scored from 196 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A romantic thriller following two troubled men whose obsessions with love and rejection spiral into violence, as a masked serial killer targets women across Mumbai. As the police investigate, the lives of two couples become dangerously entangled, revealing how thin the line between love and madness can be. A standalone sequel to Ek Villain (2014).
Ek Villain Returns (2022) is a film IMDb files under the action, romance and thriller genres.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 196 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 261 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Ek Villain Returns 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 196.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
