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/.

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese , IQ Score 144/200

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese has an IQ Score of 144/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.

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

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144/ 200

Stimulating

Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention

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

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The TVI Take

Scorsese's 2019 hybrid concert-documentary. 1975 Dylan tour footage interleaved with fabricated talking heads, including Sharon Stone playing a fictional groupie and a non-existent filmmaker discussing the production.

Scorsese never flags the fictions for the viewer, and critical reception split on whether the formal gambit illuminates the period's mythmaking or undermines the documentary contract. The Dylan performance footage is the canonical record of the tour. Educational about the boundaries of nonfiction and the construction of cultural memory.

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