1957 was the best-ever year for movies (and other surprising insights from IMDb)

Want to know which episode of "Seinfeld" was the greatest? Curious which year produced the best films? At one point in time, these types of esoteric queries fell firmly in the realm of bar debates and bickering critics. But thanks to IMDb -- that massive compendium of cinematic trivia and ratings -- we can at last quantify things like, say, the best move made in 1985. (Spoiler alert: It's "Back to the Future.")