It is not easy to determine which is the best movie of all time, but there are some rankings that have been created by different internet audiences that can vote in specialized applications. Now, the top of some of these lists now has a new 1, and has displaced both ‘The Godfather’ as ‘Parasites’.
A chilling Soviet anti-war classic
For a long time, the famous IMDb top 250 was the key measure for comparing great movies on the internet. But for many movie lovers, the website letterboxd has long outperformed its IMDb competitorwhich they consider too conventional and stuffy and now many titles on Letterboxd get even higher ratings, thus there is a new number 1 for the big question: What is the best movie of all time?
From this month, the classic anti-war devastating ‘Massacre: come and see‘ (1985) has been the new number 1 on letterboxd’s top 250 list. “Elem Klimov’s 1985 film is available on Filmin, but the Russian film company Mosfilm released the classic on YouTube a few months ago. There you can also watch it for free in the original version with English subtitles.
The list of the 250 Greatest Movies of All Time is calculated from all the ratings of the many active moviegoers on letterboxd, and the new pick has replaced South Korea’s Oscar hit “Parasite” at No. 2. ahead of Coppola’s classic ‘The Godfather’, at no. #5, after being number one for a long time. Now at No. 13, the “All at Once Everywhere” craze made it to number one at some point in the year.
‘Come and See’, set during World War II, is about an enthusiastic boy who wants to join the partisans and leaves the local village. When he returns he finds it deserted and discovers the terrible reality that happened there. The war drama by director Elem Klimov It is famous because the filmmaker manages to stage the traumatic experiences of the young man in a very direct way and believable, his influence is evident in the recent Netflix hit ‘All Quiet Front’.