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How does IMDB rate their top 250 films?

April 26, 2017films IMDb rate

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How does IMDB rate their top 250 films?

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What irks me is that truly great films are often bumped down the list by recent flash-in-the-pan mediocre films. IMO the list should be populated by those films which will stand the test of time.

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The worst part about IMDB ratings is how they’re calculated in the first place. Look at this upcoming movie, which has a rating of 4.4/10 (21 votes), but if you bother to click the ‘Vote here’ button, you see that it has a median rating of 9 and mean rating of 8.0. If their excuse is that such few number of votes tend to provide a ‘skewed’ unrepresentative rating, then they shouldn’t display any rating till they get a fair number of votes. The current system is ridiculous, though. It provides a misleading picture for people unaware that one click away is a more complete picture of the ratings.