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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 10 (Critics)

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    Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

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    Vertigo

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    Citizen Kane

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    Tokyo Story

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    In the Mood for Love

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    2001: A Space Odyssey

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    Beau Travail

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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

Sight & Sound Top 25

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    Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

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    Vertigo

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    Citizen Kane

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    Tokyo Story

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    In the Mood for Love

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    2001: A Space Odyssey

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    Beau Travail

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The Critics' Top 100(100)

All 100 films from the 2022 critics' poll, in rank order.

  1. 1.
    Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
    Chantal Akerman
  2. 2.
    Vertigo
    Alfred Hitchcock
  3. 3.
    Citizen Kane
    Orson Welles
  4. 4.
    Tokyo Story
    Yasujiro Ozu
  5. 5.
    In the Mood for Love
    Wong Kar-wai
  6. 6.
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    Stanley Kubrick
  7. 7.
    Beau Travail
    Claire Denis
  8. 8.
    Mulholland Drive
    David Lynch
  9. 9.
    Man with a Movie Camera
    Dziga Vertov
  10. 10.
    Singin' in the Rain
    Stanley Donen
  11. 11.
    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
    F.W. Murnau
  12. 12.
    The Godfather
    Francis Ford Coppola
  13. 13.
    The Rules of the Game
    Jean Renoir
  14. 14.
    Cleo from 5 to 7
    Agnès Varda
  15. 15.
    The Searchers
    John Ford
  16. 16.
    Meshes of the Afternoon
    Maya Deren
  17. 17.
    Close-Up
    Abbas Kiarostami
  18. 18.
    Persona
    Ingmar Bergman
  19. 19.
    Apocalypse Now
    Francis Ford Coppola
  20. 20.
    Seven Samurai
    Akira Kurosawa
  21. 21.
    The Passion of Joan of Arc
    Carl Theodor Dreyer
  22. 22.
    Late Spring
    Yasujiro Ozu
  23. 23.
    PlayTime
    Jacques Tati
  24. 24.
    Do the Right Thing
    Spike Lee
  25. 25.
    Au Hasard Balthazar
    Robert Bresson
  26. 26.
    The Night of the Hunter
    Charles Laughton
  27. 27.
    Shoah
    Claude Lanzmann
  28. 28.
    Daisies
    Vera Chytilová
  29. 29.
    Taxi Driver
    Martin Scorsese
  30. 30.
    Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Céline Sciamma
  31. 31.
    Mirror
    Andrei Tarkovsky
  32. 32.
    8½
    Federico Fellini
  33. 33.
    Psycho
    Alfred Hitchcock
  34. 34.
    L'Atalante
    Jean Vigo
  35. 35.
    Pather Panchali
    Satyajit Ray
  36. 36.
    City Lights
    Charlie Chaplin
  37. 37.
    M
    Fritz Lang
  38. 38.
    Breathless
    Jean-Luc Godard
  39. 39.
    Some Like It Hot
    Billy Wilder
  40. 40.
    Rear Window
    Alfred Hitchcock
  41. 41.
    Bicycle Thieves
    Vittorio De Sica
  42. 42.
    Rashomon
    Akira Kurosawa
  43. 43.
    Stalker
    Andrei Tarkovsky
  44. 44.
    Killer of Sheep
    Charles Burnett
  45. 45.
    North by Northwest
    Alfred Hitchcock
  46. 46.
    The Battle of Algiers
    Gillo Pontecorvo
  47. 47.
    Barry Lyndon
    Stanley Kubrick
  48. 48.
    Wanda
    Barbara Loden
  49. 49.
    Ordet
    Carl Theodor Dreyer
  50. 50.
    The 400 Blows
    François Truffaut
  51. 51.
    The Piano
    Jane Campion
  52. 52.
    News from Home
    Chantal Akerman
  53. 53.
    Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
    Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  54. 54.
    The Apartment
    Billy Wilder
  55. 55.
    Battleship Potemkin
    Sergei Eisenstein
  56. 56.
    Sherlock Jr.
    Buster Keaton
  57. 57.
    Contempt
    Jean-Luc Godard
  58. 58.
    Blade Runner
    Ridley Scott
  59. 59.
    Sans Soleil
    Chris Marker
  60. 60.
    Daughters of the Dust
    Julie Dash
  61. 61.
    La Dolce Vita
    Federico Fellini
  62. 62.
    Moonlight
    Barry Jenkins
  63. 63.
    Casablanca
    Michael Curtiz
  64. 64.
    GoodFellas
    Martin Scorsese
  65. 65.
    The Third Man
    Carol Reed
  66. 66.
    Touki Bouki
    Djibril Diop Mambéty
  67. 67.
    The Gleaners and I
    Agnès Varda
  68. 68.
    Metropolis
    Fritz Lang
  69. 69.
    Andrei Rublev
    Andrei Tarkovsky
  70. 70.
    The Red Shoes
    Michael Powell
  71. 71.
    La Jetée
    Chris Marker
  72. 72.
    My Neighbor Totoro
    Hayao Miyazaki
  73. 73.
    Journey to Italy
    Roberto Rossellini
  74. 74.
    L'Avventura
    Michelangelo Antonioni
  75. 75.
    Imitation of Life
    Douglas Sirk
  76. 76.
    Sansho the Bailiff
    Kenji Mizoguchi
  77. 77.
    Spirited Away
    Hayao Miyazaki
  78. 78.
    A Brighter Summer Day
    Edward Yang
  79. 79.
    Satantango
    Béla Tarr
  80. 80.
    Céline and Julie Go Boating
    Jacques Rivette
  81. 81.
    Modern Times
    Charlie Chaplin
  82. 82.
    Sunset Boulevard
    Billy Wilder
  83. 83.
    A Matter of Life and Death
    Michael Powell
  84. 84.
    Blue Velvet
    David Lynch
  85. 85.
    Pierrot le Fou
    Jean-Luc Godard
  86. 86.
    Histoire(s) du cinéma
    Jean-Luc Godard
  87. 87.
    The Spirit of the Beehive
    Víctor Erice
  88. 88.
    The Shining
    Stanley Kubrick
  89. 89.
    Chungking Express
    Wong Kar-wai
  90. 90.
    The Earrings of Madame de...
    Max Ophüls
  91. 91.
    The Leopard
    Luchino Visconti
  92. 92.
    Ugetsu
    Kenji Mizoguchi
  93. 93.
    Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
  94. 94.
    Yi Yi
    Edward Yang
  95. 95.
    A Man Escaped
    Robert Bresson
  96. 96.
    The General
    Buster Keaton
  97. 97.
    Once Upon a Time in the West
    Sergio Leone
  98. 98.
    Get Out
    Jordan Peele
  99. 99.
    Black Girl
    Ousmane Sembène
  100. 100.
    Tropical Malady
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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