Film · 2013 · Films · 2010s
The Railway Man
Two parallel scores from 136 z-qualifying reviewers and 139 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 | +0.319 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 7.38 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 7.43 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.178 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 136 / 139 |
Summary
A former British Army officer haunted by the trauma of his captivity and torture as a Japanese POW forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway during WWII struggles to reconnect with his new wife. When he learns that one of his wartime tormentors is still alive, he sets out to confront the past.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
136 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.319. DB2 raw mean = 7.43.
90% CI-floor = +0.178. Thin samples penalized.
Global 76.4 / cohort 81.8. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
