Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s
The Reader
Two parallel scores from 426 z-qualifying reviewers and 439 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 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 · 7,847 peers in Films · 2000s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.215 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 7.30 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 7.34 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.135 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 426 / 439 |
Summary
In post-war Germany, a teenage boy begins an intense affair with an older woman who has him read aloud to her before she abruptly disappears. Years later, as a law student observing a war crimes trial, he is shocked to see her again in the dock, and is forced to confront a secret about her past that reframes everything between them.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
426 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.215. DB2 raw mean = 7.34.
90% CI-floor = +0.135. Thin samples penalized.
Global 68.2 / cohort 73.7. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
