Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
Shamshera
Scored from 390 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Set in the late 1800s in British-ruled India, the film follows Shamshera, the leader of the Khameran tribe who is betrayed and killed while trying to free his people from slavery under a tyrannical officer named Shudh Singh. Years later, his son Balli grows up unaware of his heritage and eventually rises up to avenge his father and liberate his community from oppression.
Released in 2022, Shamshera is an action, adventure and drama film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 6 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 390 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 452 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 Shamshera 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 390.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
