
Film · 1995 · Films · 1990s
The Usual Suspects
Two parallel scores from 1,030 z-qualifying reviewers and 1,114 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 | +0.467 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 8.27 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 8.35 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.416 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 1,030 / 1,114 |
Summary
After a deadly boat fire and shootout at a Los Angeles harbor leaves few survivors, con man Roger 'Verbal' Kint is interrogated by a U.S. Customs agent. Verbal recounts how he and four other career criminals were pulled into a job that spiraled into a brutal heist orchestrated by the shadowy, near-mythical crime lord Keyser Soze.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
1,030 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.467. DB2 raw mean = 8.35.
90% CI-floor = +0.416. Thin samples penalized.
Global 86.1 / cohort 87.6. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1990s







