The output from the query I wrote to answer the question was significantly bigger then the options available. I got something like 800+!
I ran the following query to validate the data set:
MongoDB Enterprise Cluster0-shard-0:PRIMARY> db.movies.count()
44497
I would expect this to show 23 but I’m somehow getting 44497 
Hi there,
The movie collection contains about 44.5k documents so getting 44497 after running db.movies.count() sounds correct. Instead, if you properly write the $match stage of the aggregate pipeline to meet the stated criteria running db.movies.aggregate(pipeline).itcount() should return 23 documents (note that this assumes you placed your aggregation logic inside a variable called pipeline)