Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
The Glass Castle
Two parallel scores from 157 z-qualifying reviewers and 158 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 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 · 13,059 peers in Films · 2010s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.127 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 6.64 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 6.66 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | -0.004 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 157 / 158 |
Summary
Based on Jeannette Walls's memoir, a successful New York writer reflects on her unconventional childhood spent moving from town to town with her dreamer father, who promised to one day build the family a 'glass castle,' and her free-spirited artist mother. As an adult, she must reconcile her polished present with the painful, chaotic poverty of her past and confront her complicated love for her deeply flawed parents.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
157 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.127. DB2 raw mean = 6.66.
90% CI-floor = -0.004. Thin samples penalized.
Global 60.8 / cohort 67.6. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
