Sight & Sound

Critics' Top Ten Poll[edit]
1952[edit]
01. Bicycle Thieves (25 mentions)
02. City Lights (19 mentions)
02. The Gold Rush (19 mentions)
04. Battleship Potemkin (16 mentions)
05. Intolerance (12 mentions)
05. Louisiana Story (12 mentions)
07. Greed (11 mentions)
07. Le Jour se leve (11 mentions)
07. The Passion of Joan of Arc (11 mentions)
10. Brief Encounter (10 mentions)
10. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) (10 mentions)
10. Le Million (10 mentions)
Closest runners-up: Citizen Kane, La Grande Illusion, and The Grapes of Wrath (9 mentions apiece)
1962[edit]
01. Citizen Kane (22 mentions)
02. L'avventura (20 mentions)
03. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) (19 mentions)
04. Greed (17 mentions)
04. Ugetsu Monogatari (17 mentions)
06. Battleship Potemkin (16 mentions)
07. Bicycle Thieves (16 mentions)
07. Ivan the Terrible (16 mentions)
09. La Terra Trema (14 mentions)
10. L'Atalante (13 mentions)
Closest runners-up: Hiroshima Mon Amour, Pather Panchali and Zero de Conduite (11 mentions apiece)
1972[edit]
01. Citizen Kane (32 mentions)
02. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) (28 mentions)
03. Battleship Potemkin (16 mentions)
04. 8½ (15 mentions)
05. L'avventura (12 mentions)
05. Persona (12 mentions)
07. The Passion of Joan of Arc (11 mentions)
08. The General (10 mentions)
08. The Magnificent Ambersons (10 mentions)
10. Ugetsu Monogatari (9 mentions)
10. Wild Strawberries (9 mentions)
Closest runners-up: The Gold Rush, Hiroshima mon Amour, Ikiru, Ivan the Terrible, Pierrot le Fou, and Vertigo (8 mentions apiece)
1982[edit]
01. Citizen Kane (45 mentions)
02. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) (31 mentions)
03. Seven Samurai (15 mentions)
03. Singin' in the Rain (15 mentions)
05. 8½ (14 mentions)
06. Battleship Potemkin (13 mentions)
07. L'avventura (12 mentions)
07. The Magnificent Ambersons (12 mentions)
07. Vertigo (12 mentions)
10. The General (11 mentions)
10. The Searchers (11 mentions)
Closest runners-up: 2001: A Space Odyssey and Andrei Rublev (10 mentions apiece)
1992[edit]
01. Citizen Kane (43 mentions)
02. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) (32 mentions)
03. Tokyo Story (22 mentions)
04. Vertigo (18 mentions)
05. The Searchers (17 mentions)
06. L'Atalante (15 mentions)
06. The Passion of Joan of Arc (15 mentions)
06. Pather Panchali (15 mentions)
06. Battleship Potemkin (15 mentions)
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (14 mentions)
Closest runners-up: Bicycle Thieves and Singin' in the Rain (10 mentions apiece)
2002[edit]
01. Citizen Kane (46 mentions)
02. Vertigo (41 mentions)
03. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) (30 mentions)
04. The Godfather and The Godfather Part II (23 mentions)
05. Tokyo Story (22 mentions)
06. 2001: A Space Odyssey (21 mentions)
07. Battleship Potemkin (19 mentions)
07. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (19 mentions)
09. 8½ (18 mentions)
10. Singin' in the Rain (17 mentions)
2012
01. Vertigo (191 mentions)
02. Citizen Kane (157 mentions)
03. Tokyo Story (107 mentions)
04. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) (100 mentions)
05. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (93 mentions)
06. 2001: A Space Odyssey (90 mentions)
07. The Searchers (78 mentions)
08. Man with a Movie Camera (68 mentions)
09. The Passion of Joan of Arc (65 mentions)
10. 8½ (64 mentions)
Closest runner-up: Battleship Potemkin (63 mentions)
Directors' Top Ten Poll[edit]
1992[edit]
01. Citizen Kane
02. 8½
03. Raging Bull
04. La Strada
05. L'Atalante
06. The Godfather
06. Modern Times
06. Vertigo
09. The Godfather Part II
10. The Passion of Joan of Arc
10. Rashomon
10. Seven Samurai
2002[edit]
01. Citizen Kane
02. The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
03. 8½
04. Lawrence of Arabia
05. Dr. Strangelove
06. Bicycle Thieves
06. Raging Bull
06. Vertigo
09. Rashomon
09. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game)
09. Seven Samurai
2012[edit]
01. Tokyo Story (48 mentions)
02. 2001: A Space Odyssey (42 mentions)
02. Citizen Kane (42 mentions)
04. 8½ (40 mentions)
05. Taxi Driver (34 mentions)
06. Apocalypse Now (33 mentions)
07. The Godfather (31 mentions)
07. Vertigo (31 mentions)
09. Mirror (30 mentions)
10. Bicycle Thieves (29 mentions)
Greatest Documentaries of All Time[edit]
2014[edit]
01. Man with a Movie Camera (100 votes)
02. Shoah (68 votes)
03. Sans Soleil (62 votes)
04. Night and Fog (56 votes)
05. The Thin Blue Line (49 votes)
06. Chronicle of a Summer (32 votes)
07. Nanook of the North (31 votes)
08. The Gleaners and I (27 votes)
09. Dont Look Back (25 votes)
09. Grey Gardens (25 mentions)