Is Karen actually good?

Karen sits in the 7.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 7.9% of them.

How does Karen compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2020s, Karen lands in the 10.8% 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 Karen's score based on?

133 calibrated reviewers stand behind Karen's score.

2021

global pct

7.9

Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s

Karen

Name: Karen
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 2021

Scored from 133 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).

7.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

10.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles

1.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

133 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A racist white woman named Karen Drexler terrorizes her new Black neighbors, Malik and Imani, in a suburban Atlanta community. As her harassment escalates from passive-aggressive complaints to weaponizing her police connections, the couple must fight back to protect themselves from her increasingly dangerous behavior.

Released in 2021, Karen is a crime, drama and thriller film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 29 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 133 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 139 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.