
The canon, the acclaimed, the made-to-last. They want the thing that will still matter, and they are usually right about which one that is.
Where it goes wrong: Reputation can rate the work before you have. Watch for stars you gave to the name.
More about the Prestige Hunter
- Avoids
- Disposable pleasure. If it will not be talked about in ten years, it is hard for you to care now.
- How they rate
- You rate close to the critics and a little above them for craft. Your surprises are rare and worth reading.
- Good company
- Formalists and Archivists share your shelves. Genre Devotees think you are missing the fun, and sometimes you are.
- Against the crowd
- You are harsher than the crowd on populist hits and kinder to the austere and the slow.
- More interior than almost every curator. character vs. plotcharacter-ledplot-driven 64%
- More prestige than almost every curator. prestige vs. pulpunpretentiousprestige 70%
- More contemplative than almost every curator. pacingcontemplativerelentless 63%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Badges
All 25- Omnivore · GoldMaxed
- Patron · GoldMaxed
- Well liked · Silver144 of 250
- First entry · BronzeMaxed
- Worth following · Bronze19 of 25
- Diarist · Bronze72 of 100
- Critic2 of 5
- Serialist4 of 10
of 7 predictions resolved by a rating were right. Brier 0.17; lower is better, 0.25 is a coin toss.
We called 6 of 7 right. We know you well.
Fourteen dimensions, against everyone
Further out is a stronger lean than other curators.
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Each spoke is one dimension; further out means a stronger lean that way than other curators. A big shape is a strong, unusual taste; a small one is close to the middle of everyone.
How Justin rates each kind of thing
One row a medium; the dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
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One bar per star rating, one row per medium. Where the bars pile up is your habit; the dashed line is your average for that medium.
Every curator, placed by taste
The two directions taste varies most along. Archetypes cluster; Justin is ringed, and people they follow are outlined.
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Every curator, placed so that people with similar leans sit near each other. The two axes are the directions taste varies most along, found from all profiles. Neighbors are worth a look.
Where Justin parts ways with the audience
Above the line, kinder than the crowd; below it, harsher.
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Each dot is a title: your stars up, the audience's average across. Dots above the line are where you were kinder than the crowd, below it harsher. A wide spread means you do not follow consensus.
How what Justin loved has moved
Year by year, on the four strongest dimensions.
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One line per dimension, one point per year: the average character of what you loved that year. A line that climbs means your favorites moved toward that pole.
The numbers
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
- The Prestige Hunter63%
- The Empath37%
- Harsher than 62% of curators
- Has rated more than 57% of curators
- More interior than 99% of curators
- 8% of curators are Prestige Hunters
Among 634 curators with a profile.
How far this curator leans on each dimension compared with everyone else. Strongest eight; the rest below.
All fourteen dimensions
Profile built from 72 rated titles.
This month they were chasing intensity. From 60 logs in the last thirty days.
Logs
cool.
Loved the performances; one scene I'll never forget; unsettling; didn't buy the ending.
Mostly about the performances, how it felt, the ending.
Unsettling; the finale landed; sagged in the middle.
Mostly about the story.
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
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