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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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
1980, in 25 top lists Check -
85 +29
Raging Bull
1980, in 34 top lists Check -
144 +22
The Shining
1980, in 28 top lists Check -
225 +143
The Elephant Man
1980, in 16 top lists Check -
267 +151
Ordinary People
1980, in 9 top lists Check -
290 +144
Kagemusha
1980, in 10 top lists Check -
614 -39
Atlantic City
1980, in 14 top lists Check -
623 -152
Ko to tamo peva
1980 — a.k.a. Who's Singin' Over There?, in 1 top list Check -
824 new
Moskva slezam ne verit
1980 — a.k.a. Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, in 4 top lists Check -
896 new
Mon oncle d'Amérique
1980 — a.k.a. My American Uncle, in 8 top lists Check -
942 new
The Long Good Friday
1980, in 12 top lists Check -
970 -27
Coal Miner's Daughter
1980, in 7 top lists Check
Last updated on Jan 27, 2024 by gokhan; source