Film · 1978 · Films · 1970s
Midnight Express
Two parallel scores from 215 z-qualifying reviewers and 223 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 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 · 2,406 peers in Films · 1970s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.157 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 7.07 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 7.04 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.045 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 215 / 223 |
Summary
An American college student is caught smuggling hashish out of Turkey and sentenced to a brutal Istanbul prison. As his initial sentence is extended and conditions deteriorate, he must endure the violence, corruption, and despair of the prison while searching for any possible way to escape and return home.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
215 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.157. DB2 raw mean = 7.04.
90% CI-floor = +0.045. Thin samples penalized.
Global 63.4 / cohort 54.4. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
