Top 1,000 Films of All Time (Calculated)
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SOURCE: https://letterboxd.com/prof_ratigan/list/top-1000-films-of-all-time-calculated/
There are many statistically-minded lists available. Generally, they are either based on averages or cumulative presence in lists. This list attempts to bring the two together, with a composite score that uses Letterboxd, IMDb, Metacritic, and Rotten Tomatoes scores as well as a quantification of the movies' presence on several lists (enumerated below). I would describe the results as a consensus opinion of the films someone "should" see. [You can also see the list of 5,000 films here.]
I started with a list of about 30k titles gleaned from many Letterboxd lists, IMDb data, and other sources and crunched the numbers. I limited composite scores to those above 500 IMDb votes. Votes were normalized against the maximum votes on that website to account for the differing traffic, so the Highest Voted movie would be a 1.00 and the lowest 0.01. I weighted the differing website rating according to my own sense of importance with Letterboxd about 10x Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic about half of IMDb. I also included weighting by year to account for the significant recency bias in online vote tallies. That weight was Votes x (1+((2000-Year)/100).
The way that I quantified movies on lists like Sight & Sound was to give those films a sort of fictional rating as if it were from IMDb. So, for instance, Vertigo, at #1 on Sight & Sound's Top 250 got 100, Citizen Kane got 99.96. Lists where there was no ranking all received 100. Sight and Sound, Palme D'or, and Oscar Winners received the greatest weight, which was about 10x a Oscar nomination outside Best Picture and about twice the Golden Bear or AFI Top 100.
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85 +29
Raging Bull
1980, in 34 top lists Check -
87 +10
The Hustler
1961, in 15 top lists Check -
159 +22
Rocco e i suoi fratelli
1960 — a.k.a. Rocco and His Brothers, in 19 top lists Check -
165 +156
Rocky
1976, in 20 top lists Check -
274 -47
Hoop Dreams
1994, in 15 top lists Check -
296 +184
Kes
1969, in 11 top lists Check -
397 +176
Breaking Away
1979, in 8 top lists Check -
641 +166
Million Dollar Baby
2004, in 12 top lists Check -
744 new
Chariots of Fire
1981, in 14 top lists Check -
752 +130
The Set-Up
1949, in 9 top lists Check -
941 -164
Fat City
1972, in 9 top lists Check -
993 new
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1962, in 7 top lists Check -
994 new
The Champ
1931, in 3 top lists Check
Last updated on Jan 27, 2024 by gokhan; source