Film · 1965 · Films · 1960s
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Two parallel scores from 153 z-qualifying reviewers and 153 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 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 · 1,929 peers in Films · 1960s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.621 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 8.06 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 8.06 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.488 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 153 / 153 |
Summary
Alec Leamas, a burned-out British intelligence officer, is sent on one last mission behind the Iron Curtain. Posing as a disillusioned defector, he is drawn into a labyrinthine plot aimed at a senior East German intelligence official. As the operation unfolds, Leamas discovers the cynical moral cost of Cold War espionage.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
153 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.621. DB2 raw mean = 8.06.
90% CI-floor = +0.488. Thin samples penalized.
Global 93.3 / cohort 91.3. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
