Film · 1980 · Films · 1980s
Dressed to Kill
Two parallel scores from 255 z-qualifying reviewers and 258 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 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 · 3,141 peers in Films · 1980s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.216 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 6.98 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 7.02 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.113 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 255 / 258 |
Summary
Brian De Palma's stylish erotic thriller follows a sexually frustrated New York housewife whose anonymous afternoon encounter ends in brutal violence. A high-class call girl who witnesses the aftermath becomes both a target and an amateur sleuth, teaming with a teenage tech whiz to track the razor-wielding killer while a wary psychiatrist and a skeptical detective circle the case.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
255 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.216. DB2 raw mean = 7.02.
90% CI-floor = +0.113. Thin samples penalized.
Global 68.3 / cohort 65.4. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
