Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
The Tashkent Files
Scored from 268 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A young journalist's investigation into the mysterious 1966 death of India's second Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in Tashkent draws the attention of a politician, who convenes a committee of historians, bureaucrats, activists and journalists to debate whether Shastri was assassinated or died of natural causes. As the panel clashes, buried documents and conflicting narratives force each member to confront uncomfortable questions about history and accountability.
Released in 2019, The Tashkent Files is a drama, mystery and thriller film.
The calibrated figure is built from 268 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 322 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 5 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Tashkent 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 · 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 268.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
