What is Memoria's IQ Score?

Memoria has an IQ Score of 165/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Masterclass tier. The score breaks down to 42/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 39/50 Educational Value, and 43/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Memoria educational?

Memoria is strong on educational value, 39/50 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 current published formula is round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers. TVI publishes a three-dimension breakdown only when those values reproduce the displayed composite. The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Memoria IQ Score 165/200

Memoria has an IQ Score of 165/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-08-02·Methodology

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165/ 200

Masterclass

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

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

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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The Verdict

Best forViewers who want cinema built from listening; Swinton chasing a sound only she can hear

Skip ifStillness reads as emptiness to you; long static takes and near-silence are the whole method

Use it asA lights-off, phone-away single sitting that treats attention as the price of admission

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, v1.3.1

Formula

round((C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4)

Database scale

2,597 titles, version-controlled

TVI Canon

Apichatpong Weerasethakul →

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The TVI Take

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2021 Cannes Jury Prize-winning film, his first English-language work, anchored by Tilda Swinton as a Scottish woman in Colombia hearing a mysterious sound. The structural commitment to letting silence-and-environmental-sound render the protagonist's auditory-hallucination cognitive register is the catalog's most-formally-disciplined work.

Distributed in U.S. only as theatrical-touring events.

People & Production Apichatpong Weerasethakul · Colombia 21 connections

Direction & creation

Director

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Writer

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Producer

Simon Fields Charles de Meaux Julio Chavezmontes Diana Bustamante

On screen & sound

Selected cast

Tilda Swinton Daniel Giménez Cacho Jeanne Balibar Juan Pablo UrregoSelected in source order; not represented as billing order.

Composer

César López

Cinematography

Sayombhu Mukdeeprom

Production & release

Country of origin

Colombia Thailand Germany People's Republic of China Mexico Qatar France Switzerland

Original language

Spanish English

Credits and relationships: Wikidata, CC0. TVI preserves production, broadcasting, and distribution as separate roles.

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Critics and audiences disagree on this one

Critics (Metacritic)92/100

Audiences (IMDb)64/100

Critics rate it well above audiences here, a 28-point gap. A notable split like this usually flags something worth knowing going in: a divisive ending, a polarizing style, or controversial material. This is outside context from IMDb and Metacritic, not part of the TVI Score, which measures cognitive value on our own published methodology.

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