Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
Message in a Bottle
Two parallel scores from 140 z-qualifying reviewers and 150 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 | -0.301 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 6.14 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 6.36 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | -0.440 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 140 / 150 |
Summary
A Chicago newspaper researcher finds a heartfelt love letter sealed in a bottle washed up on a beach and becomes determined to track down its author. Her search leads her to a grieving widowed boatbuilder on the North Carolina coast, and the two begin a tentative romance shadowed by the memory of the woman he lost.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
140 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = -0.301. DB2 raw mean = 6.36.
90% CI-floor = -0.440. Thin samples penalized.
Global 26.3 / cohort 24.1. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
