Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s
The Boy and the Heron
Two parallel scores from 336 z-qualifying reviewers and 368 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 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 · 7,930 peers in Films · 2020s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.094 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 6.89 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 7.12 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.004 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 336 / 368 |
Summary
In wartime Japan, a grieving boy named Mahito moves to the countryside with his father and new stepmother after losing his mother in a Tokyo fire. Lured by a mysterious talking grey heron into an abandoned tower, he ventures into a fantastical parallel world to search for his missing stepmother and confront his grief.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
336 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.094. DB2 raw mean = 7.12.
90% CI-floor = +0.004. Thin samples penalized.
Global 58 / cohort 66.7. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
