Film · 1958 · Films · 1950s
Touch of Evil
Two parallel scores from 303 z-qualifying reviewers and 311 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 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 · 561 peers in Films · 1950s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.411 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 7.49 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 7.52 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.317 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 303 / 311 |
Summary
When a car bomb kills a businessman just after crossing from Mexico into a U.S. border town, Mexican narcotics official Miguel Vargas postpones his honeymoon to investigate alongside corpulent American police captain Hank Quinlan. As Vargas uncovers Quinlan's history of planting evidence, the corrupt cop retaliates by targeting Vargas's new American wife, drawing them all into a web of vice and revenge.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
303 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.411. DB2 raw mean = 7.52.
90% CI-floor = +0.317. Thin samples penalized.
Global 82.7 / cohort 71.1. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1950s
