Is The Lunchbox actually good?

The Lunchbox sits in the 86.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 86.3% of them.

How does The Lunchbox compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, The Lunchbox lands in the 90.2% 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 Lunchbox's score based on?

218 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Lunchbox's score.

2013

global pct

86.3

Film · 2013 · Films · 2010s

The Lunchbox

Name: The Lunchbox
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 2013

Scored from 218 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

86.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

90.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

97.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

218 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A mistaken delivery by Mumbai's famously efficient dabbawala lunchbox service connects a neglected young housewife to a lonely widower nearing retirement. As her home-cooked meals reach the wrong man, the two strangers begin exchanging handwritten notes hidden in the tiffin, forming an unexpected bond that quietly reshapes how each of them imagines the rest of their lives.

The Lunchbox is a 2013 drama and romance film.

218 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 231 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 384 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is The Lunchbox (2013) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 218
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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