What is The Gospel According to St. Matthew's IQ Score?

The Gospel According to St. Matthew has an IQ Score of 168/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Masterclass tier. The score breaks down to 43/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 41/50 Educational Value, and 42/50 Craft & Quality.

Is The Gospel According to St. Matthew educational?

The Gospel According to St. Matthew is strong on educational value, 41/50 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/.

The Gospel According to St. Matthew , IQ Score 168/200

The Gospel According to St. Matthew has an IQ Score of 168/200 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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168/ 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

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The TVI Take

Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1964 black-and-white adaptation of Matthew's Gospel, using only the actual Biblical text as dialogue, cast almost entirely with non-professionals, filmed in southern Italian villages. The structural commitment to letting the canonical religious-cinema premise operate from a self-declared Marxist-atheist director's perspective, and Pasolini's mother in the role of the elderly Mary, is the catalog's most-paradoxically-reverent religious film.

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