Is Swades actually good?

Swades sits in the 92.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 92.1% of them.

How does Swades compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Swades lands in the 95.3% 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 Swades's score based on?

233 calibrated reviewers stand behind Swades's score.

2004

global pct

92.1

Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s

Swades

Name: Swades
Genre: Drama, Musical
Released: 2004

Scored from 233 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

92.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

95.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

99.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

233 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Mohan Bhargava, a successful NASA project manager, returns to India to find his childhood nanny and bring her back to America with him. His journey takes him to a small village where he reconnects with his roots, confronts the realities of rural Indian life, and grapples with questions of identity, duty, and what it means to give back to one's homeland.

Released in 2004, Swades is a drama and musical film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 356 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 233 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 275 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside.