Film · 1973 · Films · 1970s
Badlands
Two parallel scores from 235 z-qualifying reviewers and 242 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 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 · 2,406 peers in Films · 1970s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.370 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 7.68 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 7.75 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.263 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 235 / 242 |
Summary
In the South Dakota Badlands of the late 1950s, a charismatic young garbage collector named Kit begins a romance with Holly, a quiet 15-year-old girl. After a violent confrontation with her disapproving father, the two flee across the Great Plains, leaving a trail of killings behind them as Holly narrates their journey with detached innocence.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
235 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.370. DB2 raw mean = 7.75.
90% CI-floor = +0.263. Thin samples penalized.
Global 80 / cohort 74.8. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
