"Here's our list of our top 25 movies for 2010, as rated by users of the IMDb. These rankings were not based upon critical assessments or box-office performance but the actual ratings by more than 100 million unique monthly users of IMDb.com; the films listed below all received at least 5,000 votes by users." Says IMDb.
Well...
Since I'm often more interested in films that not everybody sees, I've added in a bunch of titles seen by fewer than 5,000 voters. Like the Cannes Grand Jury Prize winner, Of Gods and Men. Or Animal Kingdom, the stunning debut by Australian director David Michôd. Or an idiosyncratic favourite like Me And Orson Welles. And it's only a matter of time until Tom Hooper's late-released The King's Speech garners enough votes to jump onto the bronze podium (currently with an 8.6 user rating).
And (presumably because the IMDb ratings are constantly changing) I also noticed that some films do not appear to be in the right order on the IMDb list. For example, Unstoppable ranks twenty-first with a 7.1 rating, ahead of the final four films which rate 7.2 and 7.3. (I don't know what date IMDb posted their Top 25 User-Rated Movies.) Or Exit Through The Gift Shop, which did not appear on the IMDb list but which has now garnered the requisite five thousand votes (it has 5,536) and boasts an 8.2 rating, which should qualify it for a top ranking. Or True Grit. Or 127 Hours. Or The Fighter. Or... (Think they released their list a bit prematurely?)
Frankly, it appears they simply leave out foreign language films. Like The Secret In Their Eyes, with an 8.3 rating based on a hefty 23,167 voters. Didn't that one win the Oscar last year? Dumb rule, excluding the foreigners. Who made up these rules - Americans? (Okay, I'll admit, a lot of foreign films that were first seen here in 2010 are dated earlier. It takes a long time to get your green card, even if you're a movie. And IMDb probably just did their search for movies dated "2010," which refers to the year of a film's initial release anywhere in the world. So they're not necessarily dumb, or xenophobic. But it does make their list a little... Flawed.)
In general, expect ratings to be inflated in early voting, and to deflate once a film is more widely seen. Which is why they went with the 5,000 vote requirement. But bearing that in mind, and since we want to include some really interesting films that haven't made that cut just yet...
IMDb Top User-Rated Movies of 2010
January 2, 2011
1. Inception 9.0 (269,138 votes) #1 on original list
2. Toy Story 3 8.7 (95,785) #2
3. The King's Speech 8.6 (3,409) --
4. 127 Hours 8.5 (5,342) --
5. True Grit 8.4 (9,226) --
6. The Fighter 8.4 (5,835) --
7. The Secret In Their Eyes 8.3 (23,167) --
8. The Social Network 8.2 (60,274) #3
9. How To Train Your Dragon 8.2 (50,863) #4
10. Tangled 8.2 (9,231) #5
11. Exit Through The Gift Shop 8.2 (5,536) --
12. Inside Job 8.2 (827) --
13. Kick-Ass 8.0 (110,259) #6
14. Shutter Island 8.0 (123,442) #7
15. A Prophet 8.0 (18,000) --
16. Mother [Madeo] 8.0 (4,839) --
17. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 7.9 (50,692) #8
18. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 7.9 (49,544) #9
19. Another Year 7.9 (1,036) --
20. Blue Valentine 7.9 (929) --
21. Marwencol 7.9 (121) --
22. The Town 7.8 (38,496) #10
23. The Illusionist [L'illusionniste] 7.8 (1,534) --
24. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo [Män som hatar kvinnor] 7.7 (31,335) --
25. Carlos 7.7 (1,142) --
26. Despicable Me 7.6 (27,935 votes) #13
27. Ip Man 2 7.6 (6,916) #12
28. Animal Kingdom 7.6 (3,987) --
29. Never Let Me Go 7.6 (2,550) --
30. Of Gods and Men 7.6 (1,020) --
31. Last Train Home 7.6 (393) --
32. The Ghost Writer 7.5 (31,407 votes) #14
33. Buried 7.5 (14,678) #11
34. Winter's Bone 7.5 (9,566) #15
35. Four Lions 7.5 (8,451) #17
36. Fish Tank 7.5 (7,214) --
37. Rabbit Hole 7.5 (2,515) --
38. The Kids Are All Right 7.4 (10,888 votes) #16
39. Let Me In 7.4 (5,630) #18
40. Get Low 7.4 (1,963) --
41. Waiting for Superman 7.4 (823) --
42. Alamar 7.4 (360) --
43. Red Riding Trilogy [1974/1980/1983] 7.3/7.4/7.3 (2,407/1,555/1,386) --
44. Easy A 7.3 (20,039) #20
45. Megamind 7.3 (6,731) #22
46. Dogtooth [Kynodontas] 7.3 (3,984) --
47. Enter The Void 7.3 (3,883) --
48. Secret Sunshine 7.3 (1,426) --
49. Iron Man 2 7.2 (78,910) #23
50. Machete 7.2 (36,107) #19
51. Red 7.2 (23,937) #24
52. Unthinkable 7.2 (17,463) #25
53. White Material 7.2 (734) --
54. Unstoppable 7.1 (12,829) #21
55. Catfish 7.1 (2,964) --
56. I Am Love [Io sono l'amore] 7.1 (2,806) --
57. Me and Orson Welles 7.0 (3,168) --
58. Daddy Longlegs [Go Get Some Rosemary] 7.0 (247) --
59. Please Give 6.8 (2,976) --
60. Boxing Gym 6.8 (61) --
61. The American 6.6 (17,016) --
62. Somewhere 6.6 (3,306) --
63. Life During Wartime 6.6 (1,570) --
64. Everyone Else [Alle Anderen] 6.6 (905) --
65. Sweetgrass 6.6 (192) --
66. Wild Grass [Les herbes folles] 6.5 (1,192) --
67. The Strange Case of Angelica [O Estranho Caso de Angélica] 6.5 (126) --
68. Greenberg 6.4 (9,278) --
(Boldfaced titles happen to be my 2010 favourites so far.)
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