Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
Sweet and Lowdown
Two parallel scores from 122 z-qualifying reviewers and 123 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 | +0.211 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 7.54 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 7.56 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.062 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 122 / 123 |
Summary
A mockumentary chronicling the life of Emmet Ray, a fictional 1930s jazz guitarist who considers himself second only to Django Reinhardt. Brilliant on guitar but a self-absorbed, kleptomaniac drunk offstage, Emmet stumbles through a tender romance with a mute laundress named Hattie and a turbulent marriage to a writer, all while sabotaging his own happiness.
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The math, in this order
122 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.211. DB2 raw mean = 7.56.
90% CI-floor = +0.062. Thin samples penalized.
Global 67.8 / cohort 67.5. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
