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Poll: Perfect Movies Everyone Agrees On

Making the perfect movie is no easy task, but getting both critics and the movie going public to agree you have made the perfect movie is even harder. 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. Which movie achieving this rare double of universal acclaim from both critics and moviegoers would get your vote?

Which perfect movie,* as agreed on by critics and moviegoers alike, do you think is the most perfect? *equal ave. IMDb-MetaCritic score of 88.5 or above (As of 25 Jan 2017 top bolded snapshot) and updated combined averages for movies whose scores have since changed (As of 10 Feb 2018 bottom unbolded snapshot).

Discuss the topic.

Results of 4,274 votes:

1.

The Godfather (1972)

Combined Average: 96.0 Metacritic: 100 IMDb rating: 9.2
2.

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Combined Average: 91.5 Metacritic: 94 IMDb rating: 8.9
3.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Combined Average: 91.5 Metacritic: 94 IMDb rating: 8.9
4.

Schindler's List (1993)

Combined Average: 91 Metacritic: 93 IMDb rating: 8.9
5.

La La Land (2016)

Combined Average: 89.5 Metacritic: 93 IMDb rating: 8.6 Recent Average: 87.0 Metacritic: 93 IMDb rating: 8.1 (As of Feb 10 2018, near perfect standard)
6.

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

Combined Average: 89.5 Metacritic: 92 IMDb rating: 8.7 Recent Average: 88.0 Metacritic: 90 IMDb rating: 8.6 (As of 10 Feb 2018, near perfect standard)
7.

Spirited Away (2001)

Combined Average: 89 Metacritic: 94 IMDb rating: 8.4 Recent Average: 91.0 Metacritic: 96 IMDb rating: 8.6 (As of Feb 10 2018)
8.

Seven Samurai (1954)

Combined Average: 93.0 Metacritic: 99 IMDb rating: 8.7 Recent Average: 92.5 Metacritic: 98 IMDb rating: 8.7 (As of 10 Feb 2018)
9.

WALL·E (2008)

Combined Average: 88.5 Metacritic: 94 IMDb rating: 8.3 Recent Average: 89.0 Metacritic: 95 IMDb rating: 8.4 (As of Feb 10 2018)
10.

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Combined Average: 90 Metacritic: 98 IMDb rating: 8.2
11.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Combined Average: 89.5 Metacritic: 91 IMDb rating: 8.8 Recent Average: 90.0 Metacritic: 92 IMDb rating: 8.8 (As of Feb 10 2018)
12.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Combined Average: 89.5 Metacritic: 90 IMDb rating: 8.9
13.

Moonlight (2016)

Combined Average: 91.5 Metacritic: 99 IMDb rating: 8.4 Recent Average: 87.0 Metacritic: 99.0 IMDb rating: 7.5 (As of Feb 10 2018, near perfect standard)
14.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Combined Average: 92.0 Metacritic: 100 IMDb rating: 8.4 Recent Average: 91.5 Metacritic: 100 IMDb rating: 8.3 (As of 10 Feb 2018)
15.

Citizen Kane (1941)

Combined Average: 91.5 Metacritic: 100 IMDb rating: 8.3 Added 25 August 2017 Recent Average: 92.0 Metacritic: 100 IMDb rating: 8.4 (As of Feb 10 2018)
16.

Inside Out (2015)

Combined Average: 88.5 Metacritic: 94 IMDb rating: 8.3 Recent Average: 88.0 Metacritic: 94 IMDb rating: 8.2 (As of Feb 10 2018, near perfect standard)
17.

Dunkirk (2017)

Combined Average: 89.0 Metacritic: 94 IMDb rating: 8.4 Added 01 August 2017 Recent Average: 87.5 Metacritic: 94 IMDb rating: 8.1 (As of 10 Feb 2018, near perfect standard)
18.

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Combined Average: 90.5 Metacritic: 100 IMDb rating: 8.1
19.

Ran (1985)

Combined Average: 89.5 Metacritic: 96 IMDb rating: 8.3 Recent Average: 89.0 Metacritic: 96 IMDb rating: 8.2 (As of 10 Feb 2018)
20.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Combined Average: 90.5 Metacritic: 96 IMDb rating: 8.5
21.

A Separation (2011)

Combined Average: 89.5 Metacritic: 95 IMDb rating: 8.4
22.

Parasite (2019)

Combined Average: 91.0 Metacritic: 96 IMDb rating: 8.6 Added 10 January 2020 Recent Average: 91.0 Metacritic: 96 IMDb rating: 8.6 (As of Jan 10 2020)
23.

Metropolis (1927)

Combined Average: 90.5 Metacritic: 98 IMDb rating: 8.3
24.

Fanny and Alexander (1982)

Combined Average: 90.5 Metacritic: 100 IMDb rating: 8.1
25.

Manchester by the Sea (2016)

Combined Average: 89.0 Metacritic: 96 IMDb rating: 8.2 Recent Average: 87.5 Metacritic: 96 IMDb rating: 7.9 (As of Feb 10 2018, near perfect standard)
26.

Modern Times (1936)

Combined Average: 91 Metacritic: 96 IMDb rating: 8.6 Recent Average: 90.5 Metacritic: 96.0 IMDb rating: 8.5 (As of Feb 10 2018)
27.

12 Years a Slave (2013)

Combined Average: 89 Metacritic: 97 IMDb rating: 8.1 Recent Average: 88.5 Metacritic: 96 IMDb rating: 8.1 (As of Feb 10 2018)
28.

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Combined Average: 91 Metacritic: 100 IMDb rating: 8.2
29.

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Combined Average: 90 Metacritic: 99 IMDb rating: 8.1 Recent Average: 89.5 Metacritic: 99 IMDb rating: 8.0 (As of Feb 10 2018)
30.

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Combined Average: 88.5 Metacritic: 97 IMDb rating: 8.0
31.

The Leopard (1963)

Combined Average: 90.5 Metacritic: 100 IMDb rating: 8.1
32.

The Conformist (1970)

Combined Average: 90.5 Metacritic: 100 IMDb rating: 8.1
33.

Army of Shadows (1969)

Combined Average: 90.5 Metacritic: 99 IMDb rating: 8.2
34.

Rififi (1955)

Combined Average: 89.5 Metacritic: 97 IMDb rating: 8.2

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