Is Secretary actually good?

Secretary sits in the 62.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 62.3% of them.

How does Secretary compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Secretary lands in the 67.6% 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 Secretary's score based on?

277 calibrated reviewers stand behind Secretary's score.

2002

global pct

62.3

Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s

Secretary

Name: Secretary
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 2002

Scored from 277 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

62.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

67.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

83.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

277 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A shy young woman recently released from a psychiatric institution takes a job as a secretary for a demanding attorney. As their working relationship deepens, the two discover an unconventional dynamic that challenges their boundaries and forces each to confront what they truly want from intimacy and control.

Secretary is a 2002 comedy, drama and romance film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 277 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 291 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 4,085 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is Secretary (2002) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 277
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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