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Y Tu Mamá También IQ Score 171/200

Y Tu Mamá También has an IQ Score of 171/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

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171/ 200
Masterclass

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

Y Tu Mamá También poster, IQ Score 171/200, Masterclass tier on TV Intelligentsia

Score Breakdown

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Cognitive Stimulation/50
44
Educational Value/50
38
Craft & Quality/50
47
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
2,608 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Alfonso Cuarón's 2001 road movie, written with brother Carlos, in which a class-divided Mexico is the third character. Cuarón uses an omniscient narrator to puncture the boys' inflated self-perception with documentary fact.

The political economy of who gets to come of age is the film's actual subject.

People & Production Alfonso Cuarón · Mexico 20 connections

On screen & sound

Selected cast
Diego Luna Gael García Bernal Maribel Verdú Emilio Echevarría Daniel Giménez Cacho Andrea LópezSelected in source order; not represented as billing order.
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Y Tu Mamá También scored 171/200 (Masterclass tier) on TV Intelligentsia's published methodology. Source: tvintelligentsia.com/titles/y-tu-mama-tambien/

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