Is Lust, Caution actually good?

Lust, Caution sits in the 85.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 85.9% of them.

How does Lust, Caution compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Lust, Caution lands in the 90.5% 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 Lust, Caution's score based on?

145 calibrated reviewers stand behind Lust, Caution's score.

2007

global pct

85.9

Film · 2007 · Films · 2000s

Lust, Caution

Name: Lust, Caution
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Released: 2007

Scored from 145 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

85.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

90.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

97.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

145 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II, a young Chinese drama student becomes part of a resistance group plotting to assassinate a powerful collaborator working for the puppet government. Posing as the wife of a businessman, she seduces her target and is drawn into a dangerous, intimate entanglement that tests her loyalties and resolve.

Released in 2007, Lust, Caution is a drama, history and romance film.

145 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 147 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 5,315 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is Lust, Caution (2007) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 145
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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