Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
Kooman
Scored from 30 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Giri Sankar is an assistant sub-inspector posted at a small police station in rural Kerala, a prying, vindictive man whom the villagers regard as a bad omen and avoid where they can. A run of nighttime burglaries in the neighbourhood lands on his desk, and his talent for worrying at a case turns out to be inseparable from the grudges he nurses against the people around him. As he closes in, the investigation stops being routine police work and starts feeding his own private scores. Jeethu Joseph directs this Malayalam crime thriller, with Asif Ali cast against type in the lead.
Released in 2022, Kooman is a drama, mystery and thriller film. It was made in India, in Malayalam.
Only 30 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 31 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Kooman 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 30.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
