Film · 1958 · Films · 1950s
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Two parallel scores from 181 z-qualifying reviewers and 187 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 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 · 561 peers in Films · 1950s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.519 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 7.82 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 7.84 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.397 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 181 / 187 |
Summary
On the night of patriarch Big Daddy's birthday at his Mississippi plantation, his troubled son Brick, a former football star drowning in alcohol and grief over his friend Skipper, fends off the desperate affection of his wife Maggie. As Big Daddy's terminal illness looms, long-buried resentments between Brick, Maggie, and his greedy brother Gooper erupt into a brutal reckoning with truth and mendacity.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
181 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.519. DB2 raw mean = 7.84.
90% CI-floor = +0.397. Thin samples penalized.
Global 88.9 / cohort 79.3. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1950s
