Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s
House of Games
Two parallel scores from 124 z-qualifying reviewers and 125 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. The 17-point gap is the rating-inflation signature for this title — discriminating reviewers liked it more than the casual crowd.
Where this title sits
Z-normalized percentile · 3,141 peers in Films · 1980s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.222 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 6.77 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 6.78 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.075 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 124 / 125 |
Summary
A successful psychiatrist and author, intrigued by one of her patients' gambling debts, ventures into a seedy pool hall to confront a charismatic con man. He offers to teach her the secrets of the short con, drawing her into an increasingly dangerous world of grifters where nothing is quite what it seems.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
124 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.222. DB2 raw mean = 6.78.
90% CI-floor = +0.075. Thin samples penalized.
Global 68.8 / cohort 65.8. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
