Film · 1957 · Films · 1950s
Sweet Smell of Success
Two parallel scores from 169 z-qualifying reviewers and 172 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 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 · 561 peers in Films · 1950s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.747 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 8.47 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 8.48 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.620 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 169 / 172 |
Summary
In New York City, ruthless Broadway gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker enlists a desperate, unscrupulous press agent, Sidney Falco, to break up the romance between his younger sister and a jazz guitarist. Falco schemes to smear the musician in exchange for column placement, drawing both men deeper into moral corruption.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
169 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.747. DB2 raw mean = 8.48.
90% CI-floor = +0.620. Thin samples penalized.
Global 96.7 / cohort 95. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1950s
