Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
The Ninth Gate
Two parallel scores from 538 z-qualifying reviewers and 564 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 | -0.014 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 6.51 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 6.57 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | -0.085 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 538 / 564 |
Summary
Dean Corso, a cynical rare-book dealer, is hired by a wealthy collector to authenticate a 17th-century occult text said to summon the Devil by comparing it against the only two other surviving copies. As Corso travels across Europe tracking down the books, he is shadowed by a mysterious woman and finds that everyone connected to the volumes ends up dead.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
538 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = -0.014. DB2 raw mean = 6.57.
90% CI-floor = -0.085. Thin samples penalized.
Global 48.6 / cohort 46.8. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
