Is Shirley actually good?

Shirley sits in the 28.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 28.5% of them.

How does Shirley compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2020s, Shirley lands in the 37.3% 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 Shirley's score based on?

127 calibrated reviewers stand behind Shirley's score.

2020

global pct

28.5

Film · 2020 · Films · 2020s

Shirley

Name: Shirley
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Released: 2020

Scored from 127 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).

28.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

37.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles

13.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

127 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A young couple arrives at the home of horror writer Shirley Jackson and her husband, literary critic Stanley Hyman, expecting a brief stay that stretches into something stranger. As Shirley becomes consumed with writing a novel inspired by a missing local girl, she draws the pregnant newcomer Rose into an unsettling, codependent bond that blurs the line between muse, rival, and prisoner.

Shirley (2020) is a film IMDb files under the biography, drama and mystery genres.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 93 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 127 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 129 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Shirley (2020) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 127
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2020s

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