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Crash IQ Score 110/200

Crash has an IQ Score of 110/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.

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110/ 200
Competent

Engages without demanding much, watchable and reasonably crafted

Crash poster, IQ Score 110/200, Competent tier on TV Intelligentsia

Score Breakdown

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Cognitive Stimulation/50
30
Educational Value/50
21
Craft & Quality/50
33
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)  · How we score →
What these dimensions mean
  • Cognitive Stimulation: observable narrative complexity, conceptual density, ambiguity, inference, and sustained intellectual demands in the work.
  • Educational Value: the density and integration of substantive academic, historical, scientific, cultural, ethical, or practical information in the work.
  • Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.

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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.
Formula
round((C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4)
Database scale
2,606 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Paul Haggis threads a dozen Los Angeles lives through 36 hours of collision, from Matt Dillon's racist cop pulling over Thandiwe Newton to a locksmith buying his daughter an invisible cloak against the violence outside. The ensemble is strong and the editing interlocks cleanly, both Oscar-winning, but the screenplay engineers its coincidences and states its lesson on prejudice too plainly to earn the reckoning it stages.

A Best Picture winner that tells rather than trusts.

People & Production Paul Haggis · Starz Entertainment · Germany 23 connections

On screen & sound

Selected cast
Ryan Phillippe Sandra Bullock Brendan Fraser Don Cheadle Jennifer Esposito Matt DillonSelected in source order; not represented as billing order.
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Crash scored 110/200 (Competent tier) on TV Intelligentsia's published methodology. Source: tvintelligentsia.com/titles/crash/

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