Sight & Sound 2022 — The 100 Greatest Films
Published December 2022
The most authoritative ranking of the greatest films of all time, polled every 10 years by Sight & Sound magazine. The 2022 edition surveyed 1,639 critics, programmers, curators, and academics — and made history when Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman became the first film by a woman to top the list.
Sight & Sound Top 10 (Critics)
The cap of the 2022 critics' poll. Jeanne Dielman, Vertigo, Citizen Kane, and the rest of the consensus pantheon.
- Chantal Akerman – Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
- Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo
- Orson Welles – Citizen Kane
- Yasujiro Ozu – Tokyo Story
- Wong Kar-wai – In the Mood for Love
- Stanley Kubrick – 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Claire Denis – Beau Travail
- David Lynch – Mulholland Drive
- Dziga Vertov – Man with a Movie Camera
- Stanley Donen – Singin' in the Rain
Sight & Sound Top 25
Wider field — still the films most commonly cited as the greatest of all time. Pro-tier needed to launch with all 25.
- Chantal Akerman – Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
- Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo
- Orson Welles – Citizen Kane
- Yasujiro Ozu – Tokyo Story
- Wong Kar-wai – In the Mood for Love
- Stanley Kubrick – 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Claire Denis – Beau Travail
- David Lynch – Mulholland Drive
- Dziga Vertov – Man with a Movie Camera
- Stanley Donen – Singin' in the Rain
- F.W. Murnau – Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
- Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather
- Jean Renoir – The Rules of the Game
- Agnès Varda – Cleo from 5 to 7
- John Ford – The Searchers
- Maya Deren – Meshes of the Afternoon
- Abbas Kiarostami – Close-Up
- Ingmar Bergman – Persona
- Francis Ford Coppola – Apocalypse Now
- Akira Kurosawa – Seven Samurai
- Carl Theodor Dreyer – The Passion of Joan of Arc
- Yasujiro Ozu – Late Spring
- Jacques Tati – PlayTime
- Spike Lee – Do the Right Thing
- Robert Bresson – Au Hasard Balthazar
The Critics' Top 100(100)
All 100 films from the 2022 critics' poll, in rank order.
#1Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
1976
#2Vertigo
1958
#3Citizen Kane
1941
#4Tokyo Story
1953
#5In the Mood for Love
2000
#62001: A Space Odyssey
1968
#7Beau Travail
2000
#8Mulholland Drive
2001
#9Man with a Movie Camera
1929
#10Singin' in the Rain
1952
#11Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927
#12The Godfather
1972
#13The Rules of the Game
1939
#14Cléo from 5 to 7
1962
#15The Searchers
1956
#16Meshes of the Afternoon
1943
#17Close-Up
1990
#18Persona
1966
#19Apocalypse Now
1979
#20Seven Samurai
1954
#21The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928
#22Late Spring
1949
#23PlayTime
1967
#24Do the Right Thing
1989
#25Au Hasard Balthazar
1966
#26The Night of the Hunter
1955
#27Shoah
1985
#28Daisies
1966
#29Taxi Driver
1976
#30Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2019
#31Mirror
1975
#328½
1963
#33Psycho
1960
#34L'Atalante
1934
#35Pather Panchali
1955
#36City Lights
1931
#37M
1931
#38Breathless
1960
#39Some Like It Hot
1959
#40Rear Window
1954
#41Bicycle Thieves
1948
#42Rashomon
1950
#43Stalker
1979
#44Killer of Sheep
1978
#45North by Northwest
1959
#46The Battle of Algiers
1966
#47Barry Lyndon
1975
#48Wanda
1970
#49Ordet
1955
#50The 400 Blows
1959
#51The Piano
1993
#52News from Home
1977
#53Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974
#54The Apartment
1960
#55Battleship Potemkin
1925
#56Sherlock Jr.
1924
#57Contempt
1963
#58Blade Runner
1982
#59Sans Soleil
1983
#60Daughters of the Dust
1991
#61La Dolce Vita
1960
#62Moonlight
2016
#63Casablanca
1943
#64GoodFellas
1990
#65The Third Man
1949
#66Touki Bouki
1973
#67The Gleaners and I
2000
#68Metropolis
1927
#69Andrei Rublev
1966
#70The Red Shoes
1948
#71La Jetée
1962
#72My Neighbor Totoro
1988
#73Journey to Italy
1954
#74L'Avventura
1960
#75Imitation of Life
1959
#76Sansho the Bailiff
1954
#77Spirited Away
2001
#78A Brighter Summer Day
1991
#79Satantango
1994
#80Céline and Julie Go Boating
1974
#81Modern Times
1936
#82Sunset Boulevard
1950
#83A Matter of Life and Death
1946
#84Blue Velvet
1986
#85Pierrot le Fou
1965
#86Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories
1989
#87The Spirit of the Beehive
1973
#88The Shining
1980
#89Chungking Express
1994
#90The Earrings of Madame de...
1953
#91The Leopard
1963
#92Ugetsu
1953
#93Parasite
2019
#94Yi Yi
2000
#95A Man Escaped
1956
#96The General
1926
#97Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
#98Get Out
2017
#99Black Girl
1966
#100Tropical Malady
2004
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