Birth has an IQ Score of 157/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.
Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention

Score Breakdown
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Jonathan Glazer's 2004 Nicole Kidman film about a woman whose dead husband appears to have been reincarnated as a 10-year-old boy. The structural commitment to letting the disturbing premise be rendered with documentary-grade tonal restraint, including the canonical 75-second extended close-up of Kidman's face at the opera, is the catalog's most-formally-disciplined work.
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