What is Mr. Turner's IQ Score?

Mr. Turner has an IQ Score of 168/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Masterclass tier. The score breaks down to 42/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 41/50 Educational Value, and 43/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Mr. Turner educational?

Mr. Turner is strong on Educational Value, 41/50 on TVI's rubric, which rates the density and integration of substantive information within the work.

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/.

Mr. Turner IQ Score 168/200

Mr. Turner has an IQ Score of 168/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-09-21·Methodology

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168/ 200

Masterclass

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

Score Breakdown

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Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

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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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The Verdict

Best forPatient viewers curious how a biopic can mimic its subject's own visual language on screen

Skip ifYou expect biopic milestones and speeches; Leigh offers grunts, light, and unhurried scenes

Use it asA study in performance as portraiture, with Spall's physicality doing the biography

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

2,607 titles, version-controlled

TVI Canon

Mike Leigh →

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The TVI Take

Mike Leigh's 2014 J.M.W. Turner biopic anchored by Timothy Spall (Cannes Best Actor) as the early-19th-century English Romantic landscape painter.

The structural commitment to letting Spall's grunting-and-spitting physical performance register Turner's specific cognitive style, and to Dick Pope's painterly cinematography that approximates Turner's own visual language, is the catalog's most-formally-ambitious biographical work.

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Direction & creation

Director

Mike Leigh

Writer

Mike Leigh

Producer

Georgina Lowe

On screen & sound

Selected cast

Timothy Spall Paul Jesson Dorothy Atkinson Marion Bailey Karl Johnson Ruth SheenSelected in source order; not represented as billing order.

Composer

Gary Yershon

Cinematography

Dick Pope

Production & release

Distributor

BiM Distribuzione

Country of origin

United Kingdom France Germany

Original language

English

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

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The Trailer

Official trailer, embedded from YouTube.

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Critics and audiences disagree on this one

Critics (Metacritic)94/100

Audiences (IMDb)68/100

Critics rate it well above audiences here, a 26-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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