The Film Data Scientist returns to dig into what it means for a movie to be "dumb", and how movies are changing in this regard.

I read all 68 pages of the patent behind Ben Affleck’s stealth AI start-up that Netflix just bought in order to understand exactly how the system works (and so you don't have to).

I studied the dialogue in 64,332 movies released between 1940 and 2022. Each movie’s writing was scored using four metrics, ...