Sight & Sound reveals the greatest films of all time in this top 20 countdown

Every decade the Sight and Sound team asks critics to name the greatest films of all time.
Here we reveal the results of the 2022 poll - the largest ever, with 1,639 critics, programmers, curators, archivists and academics each submitting their top ten ballot.
What has risen up the ranks? What has fallen? Has 2012’s winner Vertigo held on to its title? Find out now!

[@oldchicken2]

The Directors List is now the more significant list. I think the Critics List has officially jumped the shark.

[@Koiranpaeinen]

No, it hasn't.

[@oldchicken2]

@@Koiranpaeinen great argument.

[@Koiranpaeinen]

@@oldchicken2 Come on dude, obviously as great as yours.

[@Ofinfinitejest]

Agreed.

[@eterista3868]

Those lists are quite similar, almost all films are the same, there are some differences in order. Sight and Sound is still legitimate, valid source of film journalism (although 60s/70s are gone forever), run by critics, making great work, cultivating, uncovering interesting details, curating a film culture as a whole. I don't think these lists (critics' or directors') have any more significance than the whole work of great film critics (and practitioners).

[@PeterMcCluskey]

Shocking result. No Godfather Part II, Raging Bull, Touch of Evil, Lawrence of Arabia, Chinatown, It's a Wonderful Life in the top 100. Happy to see In the Mood for Love and Mulholland Dr make the top 10 though.

[@marknewbold2583]

It's A Wonderful Life is a very average film

[@guileniam]

​@@marknewbold2583 you must be on crack

[@user-lv8en6ey2n]

RIP, Sight & Sound poll.

[@lousystone]

Best poll 😍

[@pabloklanian7283]

The last scene of "Citizen Kane" of Orson Welles explains with an only image all the movie. It is the perfection in the sense of "Poetics" of Aristotle.

[@binghamguevara6814]

Please explain. Thank you.

[@themoviefan9990]

Citizen Kane >

[@dylanmcdermott1110]

If I were to vote on the best film I've seen, it would be 2001. I'm glad it topped the directors poll. That being said, I wouldn't call it my favorite; that would be either Pulp Fiction or Fargo (which is always sorely missing from the lists).

[@dylanmcdermott1110]

It would be nice to see more respect given to animation in the 2032 poll.

[@riahsaonirit2650]

If they had respect for animation, they would have a separate list for animation films and they would watch animated films other than the ones from Disney and Ghibli. They don't give a f about animation, and I doubt they will in the next 30 years.

[@dylanmcdermott1110]

@@riahsaonirit2650 Sadly, I see little reason to doubt what you're saying.

[@Siulsr]

Buñuel!!! Where are u!!!!

[@Ofinfinitejest]

Appalling number one. It's interesting as some sort of film experiment, but this vote looks like some sort of conspiracy, possibly a big joke. Editing my post here: I have learned from a friend who is a published critic that Sight and Sound this year changed from top critics to every kind of critic; from about 800 to over 1600. A lot of these new critics have probably not even seen many great films.

[@dylanmcdermott1110]

Or they have seen a lot of movies you haven't 🤯

[@cfbilly70]

Yeah, meaning they opened the floodgates for influencers and nitwits to radically change this list, which they have. The woke community is feeling proud. The true lovers of cinema, who have been waiting for this list for ten years, and who will hate this list for ten years and then be even more disappointed when 2032 comes, are basically screwed over. My god, imagine what the top 250 is going to look like. I predict: Brokeback Mountain, Nomadland, Lady Bird, 12 Years a Slave, The Matrix, Us, Black Panther.... I hope I'm wrong, I really hope I'm wrong.

[@Kraisedion]

@@cfbilly70 You think they opened the floodgates to influences?! It is possible I suppose but seems highly unlikely. We'll know when the votes are all made official and can, if we want to, check the credentials, though from what I understand they largely broadened it in terms of geography. I heard some of the more respected cinema podcasters were included, so "new media" is also being included, but I wouldn't dismiss that as influencers. Surely there are far more than 1,600 expert/experienced critics, academics, programmers and archivists in the world so I don't think the expansion neccesarily means less experienced voters/voters who have seen less films. If anything this is more likely to plague the directors poll as directors are not neccesarily that well seen, though for critics as well, at least mainstream critics, their job is usually to review new films as opposed to old films. It will be interesting to break down the final list as in 2012 S&S noted the category of each voter, ie you can see who's an archivist, who's an academic, etc. and I'm sure someone will sort the list accordingly.

[@JuliaTheTransPeacock]

⁠@@cfbilly70You say that as if any of those movies aren’t good

[@lousystone]

2012 list better than this 🥺😔

[@lousystone]

2022 list better than 2012 My opinion change 🙃🤸

[@jlg5967]

Fine film but not even in my best 11 films of 1975:THE PASSENGER,BARRY LYNDON,ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST,JAWS,DOG DAY AFTERNOON,NASHVILLE,THE STEPFORD WIVES,MIRROR,SALO,DEEP RED,DURSU UZALA.I have seen all these films multiple times,Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080,I've seen once and not in a hurry to see again .We don't get this sort of quality anymore.

[@ihatefanserviceanime364]

Nah

[@ym6174]

No Tarkovsky in the top 20? If you talking the greatest films off all time, Mirror has to be there. And so many more omissions, shocking list. These critics/professionals are getting more clueless as the years go by.

[@steveblundell7766]

Portrait of a Lady on Fire is now ranked higher than Tarkovsky's Mirror as well as Fellini's 8 1/2. Let that sink in.

[@ym6174]

@@steveblundell7766 dude, they think we're actually dumb to not recognise what films are objectively great and which are clearly not, if anything, the actual movie goers should decide which films are the greatest or not, films are ultimately made for the people, not pretentious critics

[@rbdriftin]

@@ym6174 you have that list, it’s the IMDb top 250 lol

[@arjunjai1852]

Tarkovsky the goat

[@luissegovia8205]

Tarkovsky is 😴😴😴😴

[@menachtv6522]

This list is actual joke. Sight and Sound lost it's credibility. No Godfather 2, Raging bull or Lawrence of Arabia. Embarrassing. Just to be politically correct and feed into woke generation. Do yourself a favor and instead search "They shoot pictures, dont they" list. much better list than this.

[@franciscoriverarojas4936]

The "i only know movies on english" comment lol

[@menachtv6522]

@@franciscoriverarojas4936 lol, i am not even american nor native english speaker, i am european, so i dont mind Tokyo Story or L'atalanta ve number 1 but not a feminist epiremental crap

[@franciscoriverarojas4936]

@@menachtv6522 the same "experimental crap" that has been already in this list past versions? Saying that this is experimental while saying you don't mind stuff like l'atalante (not l'atalanta) is funny.

[@menachtv6522]

@@franciscoriverarojas4936 you sound like pretty pretentious tbh

[@franciscoriverarojas4936]

@@menachtv6522 You sound like an ignorant guy trying to complain about a movie because a woman made it. I'm glad we're getting a taste for each other

[@David-du7di]

Films like eternal sunshine, do the bad thing, taste of cherry, a separation, parasite, moonlight in a top 100?? Where’s Mizoguchi?? Visconti??Lang?? Jeanne Dielman and Beau travail in a top 10-15?? Agnès Varda with 2 films on it only for being a woman?? Pickpocket #98?? Battleship Potemkin #97?? Crazy..

[@myusernameusedtobereallycr2075]

Parasite was a pretty damn solid movie although I do think it could have gotten another ten years to simmer and see if it has any staying power, also I would have picked Oldboy or Memories of murder for a south korean movie but its definitely not a bad pick like moonlight or get out

[@David-du7di]

Oldboy much better than parasite​@@myusernameusedtobereallycr2075

[@myusernameusedtobereallycr2075]

@@David-du7di I think so too, my top 5 south korean movies are probably Oldboy Memories of Murder Parasite I saw the devil Joint Security Area

[@David-du7di]

@@myusernameusedtobereallycr2075 agree with that top 3, and yes, also MOM’s much better than parasite. I’ve not already seen the other 2. The host is also a korean remarkable one.

[@ap6160]

YOU GUYS HAVE LOST CREDIBILITY with this list

[@Neel5454]

I didn't really expect top 1, but I am happy Jeanne Dielman is getting the love it always deserved. It's one of the most authentic and experimental films in the medium completely destabilizing the traditional filmmaking. Wish Bergman and Tarkovsky classics were a tad bit higher. Also happy to see mulholland drive in the top 10. While I have my issues when it comes to some of the new entries like get out, and some of the omissions like marketa lazarova and tree of life, I am glad that it's taking more challenging position by making more more room for the avant garde classics rather than the canon echo chamber. Art irrespective of the medium should change, adapt and explore over time otherwise it'll conform to orthodox standards and never grow.

[@mainmanmainlining7575]

I get what your saying but this is the best films of all time list. If she truly destabilized the traditional narrative structure of cinema we’d see more films like hers and it would have hit with audiences. It’s a scream in an echo chamber. Again, that isn’t necessarily bad but it’s not even in the running.

[@dylanmcdermott1110]

@@CRM-114 The fact that it placed number one is evidence enough that there are people who want to watch it and understand its influence.

[@dylanmcdermott1110]

@@CRM-114 The poll results disagree with you. It placed first with critics and fourth with directors, so I would say quite a few people among those familiar with cinematic history like watching it.

[@fritzwalter4660]

@@CRM-114 JEANNE DIELMAN is kind of a female version of WARUM LÄUFT HERR R. AMOK?, but nobody seems to know that.

[@marknewbold2583]

I agree. Celine and Julie Go Boating should be higher but I'm happy another female masterpiece is recognised

[@jjdvideo]

It seems, Woke & Sound has broken “new ground”

[@sayakchoudhury9711]

Any one who uses the term woke pejoratively should not be allowed in 10 Kms of a cinephile discussion.

[@highwind1991]

I don't think you understand what the term woke even is. So please stop acting like you know anything about film

[@walter_the_danger]

@@sayakchoudhury9711 cry harder

[@syntheticsilkwood2206]

@@sayakchoudhury9711 right like wtf even is that?

[@mainmanmainlining7575]

I get it. Raging Bull, and Godfather 2 are world renown films and live on they’re own merit… But the number one choice is kinda silly. It’s an experimental film that a niche group of the cinematic community knows of and love exclusively. Although I seriously have my doubts anyone would rather watch that over either Raging Bull or Godfather 2. The film is laborious. A film school equivalent of homework. You watch 2 mins and get the point. I’m not saying it’s bad per say but it’s essentially an art gallery piece. Amazing to see In the Mood for Love crack the top five. It seems this list isn’t even voted on at this point. Just placing stuff in for prosperity sake.

[@sayakchoudhury9711]

And that's bad thing?! This is not a list for most popular film, is it? Otherwise films like Tokyo Story would have never made it. I am glad that an experimental cinema is being celebrated. Who knows, now more people will know about it, and that may broaden their taste.

[@mainmanmainlining7575]

@@sayakchoudhury9711 totally agree. That’s what I was saying, but in terms of even experimental films I wouldn’t have picked that one. Gerry is fantastic. Elephant(both versions). Fallen Angels. Song to Song. All new Malick movies. Gaspar Noe’s films. Somewhere or Sophia Coppola’s movies in general. Also, no horror movies on the list? No action? I mean both of these genres are the best example of the true possibilities of cinema as it’s own art form rather then what most films end up being: filmed staged plays.

[@mainmanmainlining7575]

@@sayakchoudhury9711 It feels more like a radical statement then it is an actual choice for the best movie of all time.

[@tomc8888]

Choosing "Jeanne Dielman" as the greatest film ever is sort of like picking John Cage's "4' 33"" as the greatest piece of music ever. I get what Akerman is going for here, but to say "the boring life many women have is stultifying and destructive, and to show this I'm going to make you watch her routine in painstaking detail for 3 1/2 hours " doesn't make for great cinema any more than Andy Warhol's "Sleep" and "Empire" did. To say this is a better film than any number of great films that were excluded (Dr. Strangelove, Throne of Blood, Nights of Cabiria, High and Low, The Seventh Seal, Lawrence of Arabia for starters) or any of the other 99 films on the critic's list is absurd. Audacious? Absolutely. Best ever? No.

[@tomc8888]

@@mainmanmainlining7575 You could argue that Get Out is a horror film. I'm pleasantly surprised to see a genre film like Blade Runner on the list.

[@217vigilante]

This list sucks. Get Out, not bad but no where near top 100

[@bullcutgaming7749]

Yeah. Some controversial movies were placed pretty high, but they're still great works. Get out is legitimately as sub-par movie.

[@steveblundell7766]

Get Out is Top 100 but Godfather 2 and Raging Bull are not. Clearly any film fan can pass themselves off as a "critic" nowadays

[@Wilfrid.Robarts]

You are right, it should be Top 50

[@randywhite3947]

@@Wilfrid.Robarts top ten even

[@myusernameusedtobereallycr2075]

@@randywhite3947 I watch a better movie than it once every like 3 days or so lol

[@user-qy3zf1wd2o]

Не переживайте.Это просто список).Истинное искусство всегда найдёт своего почитателя и не нуждается в такого рода рейтингах

[@SilasHaslam]

This list is an insult to Film history itself. Just look up the whole list, How the heck does A portrait of the lady on fire higher than 81/2 or Mirror? I'm tired of these Woke bullcraps. And for No.1, even Chantel herself would have laughed at how ridiculous it is. You go for more diversity by reducing quality, this is your direction?

[@franciscoriverarojas4936]

"Chantel" lol

[@sayakchoudhury9711]

Why not Portrait of a lady is a fantastic film. We need to upgrade our filmic canon otherwise it will be fossilized completely and the films will never change.

[@SilasHaslam]

@@sayakchoudhury9711 TBH its not even the best film of that year, the Souvenir or even Tarantino's Once upon a time in Hollywood are much better films. (It's still debatable though) but come on, there are tons of fantastic films like Wild Strawberries, 7th seal, Godfather part 2, Harakiri etc which are snubbed by this list. BTW I am not a snob who only like old films, I like "good" films and I can list more than 100 films (maybe even 200) that are better than Portrait of a lady on fire.

[@razzledazzle7776]

Glad night of the hunter went from 64 to 25. Should be higher though!

[@MrAllallalla]

I LOVE that movie

[@randywhite3947]

Top ten imo

[@mahatmaniggandhi2898]

@@randywhite3947 it was no 2 on cahiers du cinema's list

[@jjdvideo]

The number one greatest film pick makes no sense. But as far as a publicity stunt, it’s pure genius. They could have at the very least selected a film that people have heard of. Sign of the times indeed.

[@dylanmcdermott1110]

I know! What possible motivation would an international film magazine have for highlighting overlooked classics? I just can't wrap my head around it.

[@Kraisedion]

Note: Sight and Sound had no control over what film would become number one (beyond who they chose to invite as voter). It is an aggregate of top 10 lists by 1,639 voters. Jeanne Dielman only beat Vertigo 215 to 208 votes (13.1% vs 12.7%), so it would be pretty near impossible to set it up as a publicity stunt.

[@jerrywood361]

Seriously? You’ve gone from legit to illegitimate in 10 short years.

[@taufiqbangladesh]

feminism worshipped poll and critics.Maniplation is everywhere.This Its losing its validity.Directors are better critics i must say.Real list 1.2001 a space odessey.2.citizen kane.3.godfather.That i can accept.

[@dylanmcdermott1110]

There's this invention called a space bar, I think you might find it useful.

[@taufiqbangladesh]

@@dylanmcdermott1110 major nigga,general sandford smithers wishes me to inform you that......

[@ihatefanserviceanime364]

I think Tokyo Story should be no.1

[@filmmaker610]

Jeanne Dielman, wow. Unexpected!

[@pabloklanian7283]

Nobody knows this woman. The intellectual capacity of Humanity is very poor right now. The foolishness of the contemporary wave of Feminism determines this election. It is only the fashion of the moment. This poll was an example. The feminist lobby is imposing its rules.

[@Neel5454]

@Reindeer Bob also one of the best films to have ever graced cinema. It being less popular or not following the conventional and traditional storytelling demands more effort from the audience is a bold choice. Finally british are taking a more globalist view and not making everything to just feed americans ego.

[@marknewbold2583]

At last a worthy poll winner

[@brandedtotroll9153]

Jeanne Dielmann is better than Citizen Kane? Absolute joke.

[@lousystone]

Jeanne dielman is better than citizen Kane 🐣

[@sayakchoudhury9711]

I am happy that Chantal Akerman is getting the respect she has long deserved. Hopefully this list will make her films be known to an wider audience.

[@vershilpatel3813]

vertigo should have stayed 1

[@pabloklanian7283]

I agree with you: "Vertigo" is one of the best movies in the History. "Citizen Kane" could also come back to the number 1 position. This poll was a theft. I am sure that included many women as voters in this poll.

[@BugVlogs]

@@pabloklanian7283 Why are women voters a bad thing?

[@pabloklanian7283]

@@BugVlogs The problem is the intellectual quality (the deep knowledge about cinema) of voters. This poll was the worst poll in the history of this kind of consultation. This is like if we would consider the best composition of History the sonata of an unknown composer, and not the "Requiem" of Mozart or the 9th Symphony of Beethoven. The great masterworks are known for all the Humanity.

[@BugVlogs]

@@pabloklanian7283 What does that have to do with women voters?

[@orkanner2183]

@@pabloklanian7283 I'm all for representation, but to come to a point where, you have bias FOR historically under represented people, that's just a new form of discrimination. Vertigo is #1.

[@frantruff]

Personal thoughts on each film: 20. Seven Samurai: An absolute masterpiece that's a lock for my top 10. Haven't seen any other movie that manages to make anticlimaxes so satisfying. 19. Apocalypse Now: Another masterpiece, a nightmare made movie. Deserved. 18. Persona: Far from my favorite Bergman, honestly a bit puzzled that it's become the "canonical" choice. Sure, the performances are fantastic and it's an interesting film altogether, but give me Winter Light or Wild Strawberries any day of the week. 17. Close-Up: There's this moment near the end where the audio starts failing, and few things in movies have hit me as hard as that scene. I don't think it'd make my top 20, but fantastic movie anyway. 16. Meshes of the Afternoon: Haven't seen, will add it to the list. 15. The Searchers: Never seen the hype with this one. Ford made far better films. 14. Cleo de 5 a 7: Haven't seen, will add it to the list. 13. La Regle du Jeu: The murder scene falls a bit flat for me considering how out of character the conspirators feel. Otherwise? Bliss, absolute cinematic bliss. And it's hilarious, too. Rarely see people mention that. 12. The Godfather: A movie I respect more than enjoy. I appreciate what it does and how well it does it, but it never fired my imagination the way others did. Part 2 was better but also more flawed. 11. Sunrise: Another movie I've never gotten the hype for, though I admit that may be my own lack of appreciation for what Murnau was doing. Faust is a masterpiece, and I liked Phantom well enough, but I couldn't care less about Sunrise, Nosferatu or The Last Man. 10. Singin' in the Rain: Fun movie, deservedly iconic scenes, top 10? I don't know about that. 09. Man with a Movie Camera: Parts of it are dull but I'm in too much awe of the best parts to complain that much. Wouldn't make my top 20, but don't mind it here. 08. Mulholland Dr.: Not a fan. Honestly feel that the pre-reveal and post-reveal scenes don't so much compliment each other as diminish each other. 07. Beau Travail: No way would this be in my top 10, but it is a very good movie that handles a wide variety of themes in such a simple story. And that ending dance is perfection. 06. 2001 A Space Odyssey: I've cooled down on this one over the years, but it remains an astonishing achievement, and Kubrick's best alongside Paths of Glory. 05. In the Mood for Love: Sensual as few other films, a deeply affecting story of the connection between two lonely people. Wouldn't rate it this high, but don't mind it, either. 04. Tokyo Story: This is the complete opposite of what I normally look for in a film and I still can't help but be in awe of it. Setsuko Hara's performance is maybe my favorite ever? And that final scene between father and daughter-in-law... just deeply touching. 03. Citizen Kane: Do we ever really know a person? Do we only know the reflections of them, forever incomplete until one day the person is gone and take their reflection with them? Or perhaps that's only for those who refuse to let themselves be known. Whatever the case, this movie is much like the girl from Bernstein's memory: you don't notice it at the time, but soon enough, not a month passes by where you don't think of it. If this were number one again, I wouldn't complain at all. 02. Vertigo: Hitchcock, Stewart, Novak and Herrmann (among others of course) crafted one of the most bittersweetly hypnotic, haunting movies out there. The last scene falls flat for me, though; a good concept botched by a tonally unfitting execution. 01: Jeanne Dielman: Not my favorite movie, but honestly? It's the perfect choice for this poll, a movie completely unlike the usual canonical stuff, a sign of change. And it's such a fantastically constructed movie, too, building up its rigid world before tearing it down in the smallest ways, accumulating over time before the sudden destruction of it all. But that twist scene falls flat for me, the approach taken by the film unsatisfying in this one case. Fortunately, the actual final scene is as brilliant as most of the rest of the movie. Overall, enjoyed the wild swings of the critics list even if I ended up agreeing with the director's list more (but then again, that one didn't stray too far from the accepted canon). Got a bunch more films to watch, too.

[@randywhite3947]

Singin in the Rain definitely deserves top ten

[@David-du7di]

The searchers is the best western ever

[@milligan8679]

Meshes is on KZbin

[@frantruff]

@@randywhite3947 Seems to be the consensus, here and in other places. And don't get me wrong, I too worship on the altar of the Singing In The Rain scene and the Broadway Melody... but otherwise I've never quite managed to see what makes it such a great movie. Gun to my head, I'd probably pick An American In Paris for the best Gene Kelly musical. Granted, I'm far from an expert in the musical genre, so perhaps I'm simply lacking the necessary frame of reference to understand the quality of Singin' In The Rain. It's happened to me before.

[@randywhite3947]

@@frantruff paris is the 4th or 5th best Kelly musical

[@daroblackheart383]

Jeanne Dielman as the number one makes me laugh. Better than 2001 A Space Odyssey, Seven Samurai, Citizen Kane or The Godfather? Good joke!

[@dominicbaker4243]

Comments here are pretty funny. It's just a list. Do you want to read the same list of best films for the rest of your lives? Found this list thought provoking and will fill in some of the gaps.

[@wethole]

where's Black Panther?

[@filmmaker610]

Nooooo 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@cfbilly70]

I'm betting it's coming up when the full 250 list is released. Or 12 Years A Slave or Shaft or Us, but probably all of them.

[@filmmaker610]

@@cfbilly70 12 Years A Slave or Shaft seems like a high probability. Black Panther will be a damning surprise.

[@VVhistory]

The day the cinema stood dead. I have seen #1 but if you know who Yasujiro Ozu is, then, you know Akerman’s style is greatly influenced by him, so that makes this list not a greatest films list but a woke culture’s list. Also lets not forget this is the Critic’s list, critics dont know shi7 about movies, they are not historians and anybody can apply to be a critic, the important poll is the director’s poll. Lets all praise 2001: A space odyssey, chosen by the directors as the greatest film of all time.

[@franciscoriverarojas4936]

The movie is 4 in the Director's list aswell. Dude, stop ridiculing yourself

[@dylanmcdermott1110]

You don't get to claim an entire art form is dead just because your personal values are violated.

[@sayakchoudhury9711]

Last decade they selected Tokyo Story as the best, if I am not wrong, Directors I mean.

[@mroazkan6054]

@@franciscoriverarojas4936 Woke list

[@Kraisedion]

Odd comment: 1. The critic list does actually include "historians", the meaning of critic is expanded to all cinema experts, including writers on film and history, along with academics and archivists. There has also been a suggestion (which can not be corroborated until the individual votes are out) that a part of the reason JD won was due to an increase of academic voters, valuing it in terms of throry/form. 2. More importantly, you could just as well say that anyone who knows Fritz Lang could see his influence on Welles and that Citizen Kane is just a woke anti-capitalist pick. Akerman took cinema to places it had never been before and crafted one of cinemas most singular and impressive pieces of art, transforming how we see time and what we consider action. I prefer Kane myself, but the feat of JD is far more impressive and I can certainly see why it would impress a subsection of the voters more.

[@kinglear7]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@marknewbold2583]

So film nerds are as sexist as other nerds

[@princeofwaldo]

Nothing from Stanley Kubrick besides 2001? Dr. Strangeglove was better, frankly.

[@dylanmcdermott1110]

I'm sorry to see so many snowflakes in the comments. I haven't seen Jeanne Dielmann, but now I must. Regardless of what people say on here, a movie without any merit doesn't cause this level of backlash. Only truly daring, original works of art that push against accepted norms piss people off this much.

[@brandedtotroll9153]

nah Jeanne Dielmann only deserves to be considered the greatest movie of all time in Bizarro world.

[@danboy77]

Why is Jaws never on these best of lists ?

[@frantruff]

It was in the director's list, same as back in 2012, when there was no Spielberg movie in the Critics' top 100, but Jaws was in the Director's Top 100. It seems Spielberg, or at least Jaws, is more appreciated by the directors than by the critics.

[@lousystone]

The salesman ,Nebraska, Titane, No country for old men, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)???🥺

[@David-du7di]

Nah

[@lousystone]

@@David-du7di why 🙄???

[@David-du7di]

@@lousystone birdman?? What a shitty movie…nebraska just a good movie…no country is the greatest of cohen’s but not for being in a top 100, maybe a top 150-200..Its important to separate personal taste than the real movies value.

[@lousystone]

@@David-du7di The magic that the audience sees is a window of clarity; It makes the world sharper, not more blunt, which is actually very fitting. This is a film that goes beyond asking 'what does it mean to be famous'? and 'What does it mean to be human?' Make no mistake, there is magic here, and Birdman is definitely a must-see film. Like all great art, it is a journey into the heart of psychological darkness that sheds a shining light. Birdman should have been in the top five in my opinion. ❤️

[@lousystone]

@@David-du7di Relentless in method, challenging in presentation and unforgettable in execution. One of the best direction. "No country for old men" is a masterful invocation of time, place, character, moral choice, immoral certainties, human nature and destiny. No country for old men should have been in the top 10 in my opinion

[@cfbilly70]

This list has lost all integrity.

[@thenamelessone6119]

Why?

[@bullcutgaming7749]

So true

[@cfbilly70]

@@thenamelessone6119 multiple reasons. This list used to be a staple of objective choices. Solely, and rightfully, judging the craft. Now it seems political views, being "woke", has had the upper hand. Moonlight, Portrait and Get Out are great films, but not THAT great. If you're gonna go down that road Tree of Life and There Will Be Blood should definitely have been here. Just the same as the new number one choice. It is a great film but no way is it better than Vertigo, 2001, Seven Samurai. Not in the same league as far as I'm concerned. It should be in this list sure, but not number one. It is there because the director is a female. It's a fact. No hate. Just facts. Female directors, directors of colour, all sorts of pronouns should get the respect they deserve. But not in a list that is supposed to be solely about the craft. (Edit: I see how this can be read wrong, I mean that those specifics, gender, race, believes, simply should not be considered at all when picking the greatest movies ever made). Roger Ebert would definitely take back what he said about Sight and Sound.

[@cfbilly70]

But hey, it's just my opinion. I have been waiting for ten years for this list, just like many others, and this is a solid disappointment. Out of all the lists made since 1952 this one is the most ridiculous. I bet that in 2032 it'll look more like the IMDb list.

[@davey5369]

@@cfbilly70 so female directors and POC directors should get the respect they deserve but not when it comes to the sheer craft of the films they have made? That doesn’t sound like respect to me and it sounds like the idea being proposed is that female directors and POC directors cannot make great films, especially the kind that could make it onto this list. If that’s the idea being suggested, that is such an awful way to look at what cinema can be. By the looks of it, it looks like the directors and critics lists disagrees with that disgusting idea and I’m glad that is the case.

[@tommysmith4117]

I’m ok with this list. Don’t understand the hate.

[@steveblundell7766]

It's not hate, just indifference. For the first time ever I have the feeling that a great many of the critics who compiled the Sight and Sound list have seen fewer film than I have

[@Ofinfinitejest]

The poll appears to be some sort of stunt.

[@tomshepherd3116]

Distinct lack of Marval. Unsubscribed.

[@BugVlogs]

Currently laughing at all of the people butthurt that a female directed film was voted number one 😂

[@steveblundell7766]

That on its own would have been very interesting. But Portrait of a Lady on Fire moving above 8 1/2 and Mirror and films like 'Get Out' in the Top 100 as well as several other anomalies reveals the lack of film knowledge among many of the critics and hence gives us no reason to prize this list above any other.

[@Ofinfinitejest]

Each of Jane Campion's films are better. Some of them, like her last, "The Year of the Dog," are VASTLY better.

[@ihatefanserviceanime364]

@@CRM-114 It's not bad bro it great

[@yuntakukai1002]

Absurd feminist taint

[@alexalex13131]

Not a film scholar, just an American film goer so most of these foreign films are unknown to me. One reason I don't believe any foreign film should be on any English speaking only persons list is because you're not seeing the whole film. For example if you thought 'Life Is Beautiful was a good movie if you spoke and understood the Italian language it might have looked like to you (presumably) The Clown That Cried. (and vice versa, if you thought The Clown That Cried was terrible it might look like a masterpiece in a foreign tongue) . I disagree that 2001 should have been included here. The last third and verrry long third act was a painful bore and gave the clear message that the writer and director just didn't know how to end it so they faked it with a (now) outmoded FX light show. See Quartermass And the Pit (1967) for the same premise and story and an non-pretentious ending that explained everything. Vertigo and Citizen Kane did belong, so that was good. Also Singing In the Rain which I only saw in its entirety a few years ago and was shocked at how good it was. Before then I only thought it was good for that one scene and blah the rest of the way. As for the other US films, no. No way the top ten. Films like A Patch of Blue, Groundhog Day, the Heart is A lonely Hunter and more were so much deeper.

[@marknewbold2583]

Yeah we don't want to be understanding anything other than good ol' merican words

[@pabloklanian7283]

It is a piece of nonsense: Nobody knows the film of this woman. The feminist lobby is imposing its rules. This magazine doubled the number of people who voted (feminist women, black people, etc.) and this is the stupid outcome. The problem is the intellectual quality of the so-called "critics" who voted this time. The best movie in the History is "Citizen Kane" of Orson Welles. "Vertigo" is another excellent choice.

[@shadowraptorpitalion5869]

I know her. I've been aware of Chantal Akerman for about eight years now and she's one of my favorite filmmakers of all time.

[@pabloklanian7283]

@@shadowraptorpitalion5869 You know her, but almost nobody knew her. It was a gift from the Feminist lobby.

[@shadowraptorpitalion5869]

@@pabloklanian7283 I know plenty of people who are familiar with the film. If you’re unfamiliar with it, why not watch it and see for yourself what you think of it?

[@franciscoriverarojas4936]

Dude, the film was on the top 40 in 2012 too, wtf are you even talking about

[@pabloklanian7283]

@@franciscoriverarojas4936 This film is not the best film in the history, ever. The poll was only a political poll. Feminism only feed Feminism. Don't be silly, man!

[@jlg5967]

Just watched KILLER OF SHEEP(1978) which finished No.43. Found it amateurish and plodding.I've seen around 11,000 movies and it wouldn't come in my top 8,000.Every episode of the 70's sitcom GOOD TIMES is superior to this.This list shows how the wokesters have taken over cinema studies and academia.

[@ihatefanserviceanime364]

Woke