Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s
Apt Pupil
Two parallel scores from 198 z-qualifying reviewers and 199 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Z-normalized corrects for reviewer bias (every reviewer re-centered onto their personal scale). Raw average uses simple mean across the broader pool including stddev=0 reviewers.
Where this title sits
Z-normalized percentile · 4,082 peers in Films · 1990s
| Mean reviewer z-score | -0.059 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 6.44 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 6.45 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | -0.175 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 198 / 199 |
Summary
A bright American high school student discovers that an elderly neighbor in his quiet suburb is a Nazi war criminal living under a false identity. Fascinated by the Holocaust, the teen blackmails the old man into recounting his atrocities in vivid detail, but their twisted bargain awakens dark impulses in both of them, with increasingly dangerous consequences.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
198 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = -0.059. DB2 raw mean = 6.45.
90% CI-floor = -0.175. Thin samples penalized.
Global 44.8 / cohort 42.3. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
