Gates of Heaven has an IQ Score of 163/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.
Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity
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IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Errol Morris's 1978 directorial debut about two pet cemeteries in Napa Valley, California. The structural commitment to letting the pet-owners' specific cognitive register render genuine human-existential material, Werner Herzog famously ate his shoe on a bet that Morris would never finish the film, established the documentary catalog Morris would extend.
Roger Ebert ranked it among the medium's ten greatest documentaries.
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Gates of Heaven scored 163/200 (Masterclass tier) on TV Intelligentsia's published methodology. Source: tvintelligentsia.com/titles/gates-of-heaven/
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