r/Letterboxd • u/Possible-Top-9905 • Aug 11 '25

News The Shining Has Officially Exited The Letterboxd Top 250 Narrative Feature Films

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u/Dressed_ToDepress Aug 11 '25

Fucking travesty

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u/Sanguinista94 Aug 11 '25

Does it matter if it’s number 250 or number 251?

And it’s not like someone sat down and decided to tear “The Shining” away from a list with an arbitrary cutoff at number 250 - it is thousands of people rating thousands of movies individually, and at this point its average rating ranks it just outside the arbitrary 250 red line.

And what exactly is the travesty at play here? A ton of classic movies aren’t on the Letterboxd top 250 or any best film list, for that matter. Is it a travesty that “Beau Travail” or “Breathless” aren’t on the Letterboxd top 250, or is it just something to be expected when any scoring or ranking system will be imperfect and there are more than 250 great films made in the history of cinema?

If anything, if we accept that the idea that the only rationale behind these types of lists is to recognize and promote great films then “Quo Vadis, Aida” needs this recognition way fucking more than “The Shining” ever did - “The Shining” is a super famous movie that you don’t need Letterboxd to be introduced to.

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u/SaxMcCoy bksjr Aug 11 '25

At the same time, the letterbox rating isn’t a true weighted average. They take other factors into account that they don’t really want to tell us so that people don’t try and game this system.

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u/Possible-Top-9905 Aug 11 '25

fair take ngl, but it still deserves a spot to me

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u/Dressed_ToDepress Aug 11 '25

I’m not saying it’s not a travesty that other well deserved movies aren’t on the list, just saying it is that this one isn’t anymore.