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Letterboxd Top 250 Overhauled and Updated With New Ratings Calculations System; ‘Harakiri’ #1

June 19, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Some major changes on the Letterboxd all-time Top 250. It was bound to happen after, earlier this month, the recently released “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” suddenly showed up as the #1 movie off all-time.

Here’s what Letterboxd has to say concerning the latest tweaks and adjustments they made:

Today we’ve updated our weighted-rating calculations to better reflect the Letterboxd community’s global consensus for each film.

Letterboxd did this because they’ve “become more susceptible to ratings distortion—some orchestrated, some not”. The result is that Everything Everywhere All At Once is no longer in the top 20, falling down to 74th place.

There’s also a new number one of all time on the revamped Top 250 — Masaki Kobayashi’s spellbinding Harakiri is the new champ. “Harakiri” is the sixth film in Letterboxd history to hold this coveted position.

New entries to the top 250 also include Cure, Secrets & Lies and Millennium Actress — no complaints on my end.

There are 9 films from Asia in the Top 20, four of them directed by Akira Kurosawa.

The top 20: 1) Harakiri, 2) Come and See, 3) 12 Angry Men, 4) Seven Samurai, 5) The Godfather Part II, 6) Parasite, 7) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, 8) The Godfather, 9) High and Low, 10) The Shawshank Redemption, 11) The Human Condition Part III, 12) Yi Yi, 13) Schindler’s List, 14) Ikiru, 15) City of God, 16) La Haine, 17) The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, 18) Ran, 19) Bright Summer Day, 20) Goodfellas.

The Letterboxd Top 250 has surpassed IMDb’s own Top 250 as the most popular all-time list — at least for the hardcore cinephile contingent we refer to as “Film Twitter”. I still prefer the more honest populism of the IMDB top 250. Is it the definitive movie list? Of course not. That honor would still have to go to the Sight and Sound critics poll, especially the results of the 2012 edition.

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