Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s
Past Lives
Scored from 490 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Nora and Hae Sung were childhood friends in Korea until Nora's family immigrated to Canada. Years later, as adults living separate lives, they reunite when Hae Sung visits Nora in New York, where she is now an accomplished playwright engaged to another man. The film explores the emotional complexity of their reconnection and the concept of alternate timelines and soulmates.
Celine Song directed Past Lives, a drama and romance film from 2023. It stars Greta Lee, Justin H. Min and John Magary. The runtime is 104 minutes. It is rated PG-13. It was made in the United States.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 490 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 490 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 508 reviewers with at least two reviews each 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 Past Lives 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 490.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
