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Hugo IQ Score 160/200

Hugo has an IQ Score of 160/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

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160/ 200
Masterclass

Exceptional cognitive and educational substance, delivered with craft that sustains close attention

Hugo poster, IQ Score 160/200, Masterclass tier on TV Intelligentsia

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50
39
Educational Value/50
41
Craft & Quality/50
40
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)  · How we score →
What these dimensions mean
  • Cognitive Stimulation: how much the title demands of your mind, its structural complexity, ideas, and sustained intellectual engagement.
  • Educational Value: what you take away, across academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.
  • 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
2,597 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Scorsese's 2011 family-adventure that is in fact sustained inquiry into early cinema history, Georges Méliès's career, A Trip to the Moon's restoration, the fragility of film preservation. The Brian Selznick novel adaptation gave Scorsese the cover to make the cinema-archive love letter he had been making in essays and documentaries for decades.

Ben Kingsley's Méliès is the film's actual subject; the boy protagonist is the framing device.

People & Production Martin Scorsese · Infinitum Nihil · United States 30 connections

Direction & creation

On screen & sound

Selected cast
Asa Butterfield Chloë Grace Moretz Ben Kingsley Sacha Baron Cohen Jude Law Christopher LeeSelected in source order; not represented as billing order.
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Hugo scored 160/200 (Masterclass tier) on TV Intelligentsia's published methodology. Source: tvintelligentsia.com/titles/hugo/

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