Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Surviving Christmas
Two parallel scores from 120 z-qualifying reviewers and 123 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 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 · 7,847 peers in Films · 2000s
| Mean reviewer z-score | -0.411 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 5.57 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 5.67 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | -0.561 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 120 / 123 |
Summary
A wealthy, lonely Chicago advertising executive dreads spending Christmas alone, so he returns to his childhood home and pays its current working-class occupants to pose as his family for the holidays. The awkward arrangement spirals into chaos as the family's grown daughter arrives and old wounds resurface, forcing everyone to confront what family really means.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
120 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = -0.411. DB2 raw mean = 5.67.
90% CI-floor = -0.561. Thin samples penalized.
Global 19.7 / cohort 21.4. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
