Film · 2020 · Films · 2020s
Promising Young Woman
Scored from 1,061 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A young woman affected by a traumatic past takes justice into her own hands, devising a plan to expose and confront predatory men. She infiltrates the world of nightlife, targeting men who attempt to prey on intoxicated women.
Promising Young Woman is a 2020 drama, crime and thriller film starring Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham and Adam Brody. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Emerald Fennell directed it. It runs 1h 53m. Its certificate is R.
7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 1,061 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,107 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 582 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Promising Young Woman 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 1,061.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
