Is Vera Drake actually good?

Vera Drake sits in the 90.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 90.6% of them.

How does Vera Drake compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Vera Drake lands in the 94.2% 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 Vera Drake's score based on?

140 calibrated reviewers stand behind Vera Drake's score.

2004

global pct

90.6

Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s

Vera Drake

Name: Vera Drake
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 2004

Scored from 140 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

90.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

94.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

98.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

140 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1950s London, Vera Drake is a warm, working-class wife and mother who cleans houses by day and quietly helps desperate young women end unwanted pregnancies on the side, refusing any payment. When one procedure goes badly wrong, the police come to her door, and Vera's secret tears through her devoted family and the tight-knit community that thought they knew her.

Released in 2004, Vera Drake is a crime and drama film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 720 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 140 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 142 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.