Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
Life
Two parallel scores from 126 z-qualifying reviewers and 132 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 | +0.234 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 7.44 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 7.39 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.087 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 126 / 132 |
Summary
In 1932, two New York hustlers, Rayford Gibson and Claude Banks, are wrongly convicted of murder in Mississippi and sentenced to life on a brutal prison farm. The mismatched pair spend decades bickering, scheming to escape, and ultimately forging an unlikely lifelong friendship behind bars.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
126 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.234. DB2 raw mean = 7.39.
90% CI-floor = +0.087. Thin samples penalized.
Global 69.7 / cohort 69.5. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
