Is The Handmaiden actually good?

The Handmaiden sits in the 89.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 89.3% of them.

How does The Handmaiden compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, The Handmaiden lands in the 92.4% 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 The Handmaiden's score based on?

334 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Handmaiden's score.

2016

global pct

89.3

Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s

The Handmaiden

Name: The Handmaiden
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Released: 2016

Scored from 334 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

89.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

92.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

98.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

334 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1930s Korea under Japanese rule, a young pickpocket is hired as a handmaiden to a wealthy Japanese heiress living on a remote estate with her sinister uncle. She is part of a con man's scheme to seduce the heiress, steal her fortune, and have her committed to an asylum, but the plan grows tangled as loyalties and desires shift.

Released in 2016, The Handmaiden is a drama, romance and thriller film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 352 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 334 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 347 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them.

Is The Handmaiden (2016) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 334
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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