Live Poll: Perfect Movies Everyone Agrees On

I can't disagree with your thoughts, other than giving the IMDb Top 250 and its scoring movies attributes it doesn't claim and the answer lists impartial selection. It is not a list of the best movies, but rather the most popular from a pool of more acclaimed movies. It has biases just like other top movies list that tend to favor newer movies and be synced to a generational period, the formative years of those 40-60 year old film historians. If you compare, the AFI 100 and AFI 100 10 year lists from the so-called "experts" it has that same biases. As older movies, got voted out with newer movies getting voting in. Both lists, favored the landmark movies from each generations youth.

However,the answer option list it is a product of the lists impartiality, rather than a product of any favoritism toward new movies. The films that are listed meet the two requirements and are simply a distribution of those that did. The list in turn is completely impartial, rather than one man's opinion. "Only about 1 out of 5,000 movies of all IMDb rated feature films meet both these combined requirements for unqualified, universal acclaim: a Metacritic Critic Score of 90 or above and a IMDb User Rating of 8.0 or above with 15,000+ votes."

However, as you point out, I agree the least deserving movies of this list of "perfect" movies are the most recent movies. All have seen there perfectness diminish in the past year, alone to borderline contributions. While, the older movies position have been unmoved. Older movies might be a bit under-represented, as all do not have a web-based MetaScore to qualify for inclusion, but the most of the most notable films have been backscored, even though they pre-date the MetaScore service.