A Serious Man , IQ Score 154/200
A Serious Man has an IQ Score of 154/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.
Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention
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IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
The Coens' most direct theological inquiry, a Midwest physics professor in 1967 suffers a cascade of misfortunes that none of his three rabbis can explain in any framework other than the framework of unexplained misfortune. The dybbuk prologue and the climactic tornado bookend are structural bookends to a film whose entire argument is that meaning-making is the thing we do because we have to, not because it works.
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A Serious Man scored 154/200 (Stimulating tier) on TV Intelligentsia's published methodology. Source: tvintelligentsia.com/titles/a-serious-man/
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