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The critics' top 10 of all time

Every ten years, Sight and Sound asks the world's critics for the greatest films ever made. In 2022, 1,639 of them voted, and for the first time a film by a woman came top.

Source: The Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022 ↗

The poll has run since 1952. Citizen Kane held the top spot for fifty years, until Vertigo took it in 2012. In 2022 Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, three and a half hours of a widow’s routine coming apart, jumped from 36th to first.

Start with In the Mood for Love or Singin’ in the Rain if you want an easy way in.

  1. 1
    Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles1975 · IMDb 7.5 · RT 95%
  2. 2
    Vertigo1958 · IMDb 8.2 · RT 94%
  3. 3
    Citizen Kane1941 · IMDb 8.2 · RT 99%
  4. 4
    Tokyo Story1953 · IMDb 8.1 · RT 100%
  5. 5
    In the Mood for Love2000 · IMDb 8.0 · RT 92%
  6. 6
    2001: A Space Odyssey1968 · IMDb 8.3 · RT 90%
  7. 7
    Beau Travail1999 · IMDb 7.3 · RT 87%
  8. 8
    Mulholland Drive2001 · IMDb 7.9 · RT 83%
  9. 9
    Man with a Movie Camera1929 · IMDb 8.3 · RT 98%
  10. 10
    Singin' in the Rain1952 · IMDb 8.3 · RT 100%