Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
The Kashmir Files
Scored from 1,022 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Krishna Pandit, a student activist at a Delhi university, has absorbed his professor's account of Kashmir as an occupied territory. When his grandfather Pushkar Nath Pandit dies, Krishna carries the ashes to Srinagar and meets four of the old man's friends — a retired bureaucrat, a doctor, a journalist and a police officer — who tell him what happened to his own family during the 1990 exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from the valley. Their testimony unfolds in flashback as militants terrorise Pandit households and drive them out. Vivek Agnihotri's Hindi-language drama, with Anupam Kher, Mithun Chakraborty, Darshan Kumar and Pallavi Joshi, cuts between the violence of 1990 and Krishna's campus present.
The Kashmir Files is a 2022 drama film. Its listed language is Hindi. It was made in India. It runs 2h 50m. It is rated A (India, CBFC).
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 25 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 1,022 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 1,485 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 The Kashmir Files 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 1,022.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
