Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
Talaash: The Answer Lies Within
Scored from 180 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A grief-stricken Mumbai police inspector, still reeling from the death of his young son, is assigned to investigate the mysterious car-crash death of a film star. As he digs into the city's seedy underworld of brothels and missing girls, he meets an enigmatic woman who seems to know more than she should, and his investigation begins to blur the line between the rational and the supernatural.
Released in 2012, Talaash: The Answer Lies Within is a crime, drama and mystery film.
13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 180 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 188 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 Talaash: The Answer Lies Within 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 · 2010s (13,059 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 180.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
