Insights

Dr. X vs the crowd

On the 1,184 rated films with 25,000+ IMDb votes, Dr. X's median is 6.2; IMDb's is 7.2. The order largely agrees (correlation 0.68), so the lists below compare positions, not raw points: a film in Dr. X's top tenth and IMDb's bottom third counts as a wide gap. The line marks equal standing on both scales.

Rated higher than the crowd

Grimsby2016 8.8 · 6.2 Assassin's Creed2016 7.6 · 5.6 The Da Vinci Code2006 9.8 · 6.6 The Wall2017 7.8 · 6.2 Death Race2008 8.2 · 6.4 Love2015 7.6 · 6.1

Dr. XIMDb/ 10

Rated lower than the crowd

Spotlight2015 3.8 · 8.1 Downfall2004 4.2 · 8.2 Amélie2001 4.4 · 8.3 The Big Short2015 2.8 · 7.8 Zack Snyder's Justice League2021 4.2 · 7.9 The Butterfly Effect2004 2.8 · 7.6

Dr. XIMDb/ 10

Metacritic, 1,235 films: correlation 0.58. Rotten Tomatoes is the share of positive reviews, not a score, so it is never converted to /10; correlation 0.56 over 1,258 films.

Content vs form

Each score is content (five criteria) plus form (five criteria), each out of 5. Form scores higher on 1,142 of 1,307 films, content on 95; 70 are even. Medians: content 2.8, form 3.4. Circle size is the number of films at that point.

Average per criterion

Breakdowns

All 1,307 rated films. Median 6.2, mean 5.93; the most rated decade is the 2010s (600 films). Decades and genres show the mean score. Decades with fewer than 10 films are greyed, genres with fewer are left out, and directors need 5 rated films.

Score distribution

By decade

ASL across decades

Average shot length (ASL) is the running time divided by the number of shots, in seconds. It is measured for 1,410 films, rated or not. The longest median is the 1960s' at 11.1 seconds; the shortest, the 2000s' at 4.9. Decades with fewer than 10 films are greyed. Director by director, see the directors' wing.

Crew and the criteria

People with 5 or more films among Dr. X's ratings, set against the criterion closest to their job: writers against the content average, the other roles against one form criterion. Averages are out of 5; the middle column is the number of films.