Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s
Lost Ladies
Scored from 213 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Rural India, 2001: on a crowded night train, two brides travelling in identical red veils are accidentally swapped. Deepak brings the wrong young woman home to his village and must go looking for his wife, Phool, who is left stranded at a remote railway platform where a sharp-tongued tea-stall owner takes her in. The bride in Deepak's household gives her name as Pushpa and is evasive about her in-laws, drawing the attention of a bribe-taking police inspector, Shyam Manohar. Kiran Rao's Hindi-language comedy-drama uses the mix-up to examine veiling, dowry and what the two women want for themselves.
Released in 2023, Lost Ladies is a comedy and drama film. It was made in India, in Hindi. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 16 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 213 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 256 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Lost Ladies 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 213.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
