NYCFILMTIMES
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SEP 14—SEP 20
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DISCOVERY: TASTE / RECEPTION / AFTER 6 HOW? +
Score = 0.55 × taste + 0.35 × reception + 0.10 × evening
Taste = 100 / (1 + exp(−Σ wᵢxᵢ)). Evening = 100 when at least one upcoming listed screening starts at or after 6pm; otherwise 0. Reception combines RT critics and Letterboxd members, with small samples moderated.
Upvote to learn more of a film’s attributes; downvote to learn less. Votes are saved to the database and retrain the shared model for everyone. Other open pages refresh feedback every 30 seconds. Hold a selected vote for half a second to remove that film from the training examples (keyboard: hold Space or Enter). There are no hidden default votes. 21 global votes · 20 total training examples.
Features: genres, countries, directors, logarithmic release age, member appreciation, and recent audience attention. Class-balanced logistic regression with L2 regularization; positive and negative examples have equal total influence. With only one label class, taste stays neutral. Scores are sorting aids, not calibrated probabilities. More similar attributes can lift other films too; votes do not guarantee a fixed position.
LEARNED WEIGHTS / INSPECT +
Largest absolute coefficients first. A feature contributes its value × weight to the logit, before the sigmoid. Unseen features have weight 0.
| ATTRIBUTE | WEIGHT |
|---|---|
| Director: edgar wright | -0.757 |
| Director: george miller | -0.742 |
| Director: wong kar wai | +0.702 |
| Director: susanne bier | -0.668 |
| Director: olivia wilde | -0.661 |
| Director: dave green | -0.600 |
| Director: matt johnson | +0.600 |
| Director: zach cregger | -0.595 |
| Director: brydie o'connor | +0.593 |
| Director: na hong jin | -0.589 |
| Director: john early | +0.585 |
| Director: jane schoenbrun | -0.578 |
| Director: stanley kubrick | +0.513 |
| Repertory / older release | +0.483 |
| Director: paul thomas anderson | +0.435 |
| Director: jonathan demme | +0.429 |
| Recent mass attention | -0.398 |
| Director: pedro almodóvar | +0.385 |
| Director: mathieu kassovitz | +0.375 |
| Genre: Drama | +0.356 |
| Director: pier paolo pasolini | +0.347 |
| Director: george butler | +0.346 |
| Director: robert fiore | +0.346 |
| Genre: Action | -0.298 |
| Genre: Romance | -0.225 |
| Genre: Documentary | +0.207 |
| Genre: Horror | -0.177 |
| Genre: Adventure | -0.146 |
| Genre: Biography | +0.144 |
| Country: Hong Kong | +0.115 |
| Country: Australia | -0.109 |
| Member appreciation | +0.101 |
| Country: UK | -0.101 |
| Country: USA | -0.098 |
| Country: Canada | +0.088 |
| Genre: Science Fiction | -0.083 |
| Country: Spain | +0.080 |
| Country: South Korea | -0.080 |
| Country: Italy | +0.073 |
| Country: Germany | -0.072 |
| Genre: Fantasy | -0.070 |
| Genre: Music | +0.063 |
| Genre: Thriller | -0.062 |
| Genre: Animation | -0.056 |
| Genre: Family | -0.056 |
| Genre: Kids & Family | -0.056 |
| Genre: LGBTQ+ | +0.055 |
| Country: Japan | -0.048 |
| Genre: Comedy | -0.045 |
| Genre: Crime | +0.032 |
| Genre: Mystery & Thriller | -0.023 |
| Genre: Mystery | +0.007 |
| Country: France | +0.007 |