What is Mank's IQ Score?

Mank has an IQ Score of 184/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Masterclass tier. The score breaks down to 48/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 49/50 Educational Value, and 39/50 Craft & Quality.

Mank is strong on educational value, 49/50 on TVI's rubric, which covers academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's IQ Score is calculated as round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers: Masterclass (≥160), Stimulating (≥130), Competent (≥100), Passive (≥70), and Numbing (<70). The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Mank , IQ Score 184/200

Mank has an IQ Score of 184/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-06-17·Methodology

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184/ 200

Masterclass

Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

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Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.2

Formula

round(C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4

Database scale

2,338 titles, version-controlled

TVI Canon

David Fincher →

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The TVI Take

David Fincher's 2020 Old Hollywood drama, written by his late father Jack Fincher, follows screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) drafting Citizen Kane during convalescence while Orson Welles waits offstage. The black-and-white cinematography and academy-ratio framing aren't pastiche, they're a working argument that the film industry of 1934 (Upton Sinclair's gubernatorial campaign, MGM's fake newsreel propaganda) prefigures the Trump-era media environment.

The Kael-vs-Welles authorship debate is the surface; the politics is the actual subject.

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