| These are not the highest rated movies of each year. They're the highest rated movies of each year *on the Top 250*. Sounds like it should be the same thing, but it's not, because the Top 250 excludes a lot of movies that should be on it if it's based only on average rating and number of votes. For example, Moon has an average rating of 8.0 and 45,873 votes, and it's not on the list -- but a bunch of movies with a 7.9 rating and under 30,000 votes (The Philadelphia Story, The Lady Vanishes, My Neighbor Totoro, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Anatomy of a Murder, The Adventures of Robin Hood, All Quiet on the Western Front) are. You'll also notice that the rating listed on the Top 250 doesn't always match the rating listed on the film's page. The Killing, for example, is listed on the Top 250 as having a rating of 8.0 -- but its average rating is actually 8.2. This is all because IMDb only counts the votes of "regular voters" in their calculations of the Top 250, but refuses to say who counts as a "regular voter." |
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