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maybe early 2016 then.

It should make the Top 250 again around Autumn 2015, assuming they don't raise the minimum required votes again.

UPDATE
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) - BACK IN
The Battle of Algiers (1966) - BACK IN
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) - BACK IN
Les Diaboliques (1955) - BACK IN
Ikiru (1952) - BACK IN
Fanny and Alexander (1982) - BACK IN
The Wages of Fear (1953) - Needs 800+
Throne of Blood (1957) - Needs 4,000+
La Grande Illusion (1937) - Needs 4,500+
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) - Needs 4,500+
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) - Needs 5,500+
Come and See (1985) - Needs 6,000+
Tokyo Story (1953) - Needs 7,000+
Sherlock Jr. (1924) - Needs 8,500+
Seppuku (1962) - Needs 12,000+

it has been in the list like back n forth

It's gone again. Unfortunately IMDB raised the minimum vote count to be on the Top 250 up to 25,000 votes. It's going to be a long time before this film shows up again.

Yeah, not sure what you guys did but its on the list now and i stumbled upon while viewing the 250, and now im definately trying to find this movie to watch
http://thesilverscreenjunkie.blogspot.com/ - Lets discuss movies without IMDB haters!

Well, it is now..it's currently at 232#

I think that the top 250 list is great! okay, there are many films that shoulndt mind be, but everyone can calculate the list them selfs. they have given the formula how they do it, to calculate the weighted average. persoanlly, I havent seen this film yet, but it seems good!

Yep. Same with Andrey Rublyev, one of my fav movies ever, also rated 8.2 and also out of the Top 250.

http://www.took.nl/250/title/tt0091251

Short answer: Because the top 250 is a joke.
Language! The thing that means stuff.

Near the end of the film, I noticed my right thumb was hurting and the rest of my hand was asleep. My hand was gripped in a clench on the armrest, the thumb contorted and locked in the cupholder. It had obviously been like that for awhile. That is how I knew I had dissolved into the protagonist. I don't care much or rankings or ratings which are subjective.I do know "Come and See" was a powerful war film with incredible sound,cinematography and editing. I would not call it anti-war. It is about the Russian soul, life and resolve at the hands of brutal occupiers who viewed them as vermin; a young boy's adventure becomes a descent into a world of depravity.

It used to be, not too long ago, and its rating wasn't much lower than now but other films' sheer number of votes may have pushed it out.
This is a shame, because I never would FOUND this film if I hadn't been scanning the IMDb top 250 for great films I hadn't yet seen. This deserves to be back on the list.
The war is not meant to be won it is meant to be
continuous
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but also a debate I won't enter into.
Let's just hope you mean it

So it's a failing of humanity that this movie isn't in the Top 250? Holy Hyperbole!
As to your big fat question, that's tricky. I didn't love the Dark Knight, but think this movie wasn't as good regardless. Avatar is a turd, so my answer just depends on whether Avatar or Come and See is a bigger turd. And that's probably not worth measuring.
Anyway, I completely disagree that this is "cinema's most authentic, gut-wrenching and outstandingly performed portrayal of senseless evil and the folly of man."
It may be authentic. It's debateable, but also a debate I won't enter into. Regardless, authenticity doesn't equal quality or importance. I think the acting, editing and direction was awful and it wasn't even as subtle as the Star Wars prequels.

"not a good movie"? really? would you say that non-documentary cinema's most authentic, gut-wrenching and outstandingly performed portrayal of senseless evil and the folly of man doesn't even deserve its place somewhere between the likes of The Dark Knight and Avatar? where DID humanity come to? sheesh

If it's not in the Top 250 now, it never will be. But the whole system is weird. Lots of crap movies are there, and great ones aren't. It's very biased in terms of newer stuff.
Aside from that, it's also just not a good movie.

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