Donnie Darko , IQ Score 158/200
Donnie Darko has an IQ Score of 158/200 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
Richard Kelly's 2001 directorial debut anchored by Jake Gyllenhaal as a sleepwalking suburban teenager experiencing time-travel visions and instructions from a man in a rabbit costume. The structural commitment to building a self-consistent metaphysics through the in-universe Philosophy of Time Travel book (the Tangent Universe, the Living Receiver, the Manipulated Dead) is rare for a directorial debut.
Among the canonical early-2000s cult-cinema entries.
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