Canonical List

📜Sight & Sound — Critics' Poll 2022

The BFI's once-per-decade critics' canon. The 2022 poll crowned Akerman's Jeanne Dielman as the greatest of all time.

58 matched films

#1
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

19757.5

Chantal Akerman

DramaAuteur
7.5
#2
Vertigo

Vertigo

19588.2

Alfred Hitchcock

MysteryRomanceThriller
8.2
#3
Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane

19418.2

Orson Welles

DramaMystery
8.2
#4
Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story

Tôkyô monogatari

19538.1

Yasujirô Ozu

Drama
8.1
#5
In the Mood for Love

In the Mood for Love

Fa yeung nin wah

20008.0

Wong Kar-Wai

DramaRomanceAuteur
8.0
#6
2001: A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey

19688.3

Stanley Kubrick

AdventureSci-FiAuteur
8.3
#8
Mulholland Drive

Mulholland Drive

Mulholland Dr.

20017.9

David Lynch

DramaMysteryThrillerAuteur
MUBI
MUBI
7.9
#9
Man with a Movie Camera

Man with a Movie Camera

Chelovek s kino-apparatom

19298.3

Dziga Vertov

Documentary
8.3
#10
Singin' in the Rain

Singin' in the Rain

19528.3

Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

ComedyMusicalRomance
8.3
#11
Sunrise

Sunrise

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

19278.1

F.W. Murnau

DramaRomance
8.1
#12
The Godfather

The Godfather

19729.2

Francis Ford Coppola

CrimeDramaAuteur
9.2
#13
The Rules of the Game

The Rules of the Game

La règle du jeu

19397.9

Jean Renoir

ComedyDrama
7.9
#14
Cleo from 5 to 7

Cleo from 5 to 7

Cléo de 5 à 7

19627.8

Agnès Varda

ComedyDramaMusicAuteur
MUBI
MUBI
7.8
#15
Mister Roberts

Mister Roberts

19557.6

John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan

ComedyDramaWar
7.6
#17
Close-Up

Close-Up

Nema-ye nazdik

19908.2

Abbas Kiarostami

BiographyCrimeDramaAuteur
8.2
#18
Persona

Persona

19668.0

Ingmar Bergman

DramaThrillerAuteur
8.0
#19
Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now

19798.4

Francis Ford Coppola

DramaMysteryWarAuteur
MUBI
MUBI
8.4
#20
Seven Samurai

Seven Samurai

Shichinin no samurai

19548.6

Akira Kurosawa

ActionDramaAuteur
8.6
#21
Late Spring

Late Spring

Banshun

19498.2

Yasujirô Ozu

ComedyDrama
8.2
#24
Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

19897.9

Spike Lee

ComedyDramaAuteur
MUBI
MUBI
7.9
#25
The Night of the Hunter

The Night of the Hunter

19558.0
CrimeDramaThriller
8.0
#27
Shoah

Shoah

19858.7

Claude Lanzmann

DocumentaryHistoryWar
8.7
#29
Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver

19768.2

Martin Scorsese

CrimeDramaAuteur
8.2
#30
Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu

20198.0

Céline Sciamma

DramaRomanceAuteur
Max
Max
8.0
#31
8½

8½

19638.0

Federico Fellini

DramaAuteur
8.0
#34
L'Atalante

L'Atalante

19347.7

Jean Vigo

AdventureDramaRomance
7.7
#35
Pather Panchali

Pather Panchali

19558.2

Satyajit Ray

DramaHistoryAuteur
8.2
#36
City Lights

City Lights

19318.5

Charles Chaplin

ComedyDramaRomance
Max
Max
8.5
#38
Rear Window

Rear Window

19548.5

Alfred Hitchcock

DramaMysteryThriller
8.5
#41
Rashomon

Rashomon

Rashômon

19508.1

Akira Kurosawa

CrimeDramaMysteryAuteur
8.1
#43
Stalker

Stalker

19798.0

Andrei Tarkovsky

DramaSci-FiAuteur
8.0
#45
Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon

19758.1

Stanley Kubrick

AdventureDramaWarAuteur
8.1
#48
Ordet

Ordet

19558.2

Carl Theodor Dreyer

DramaAuteur
8.2
#50
The Piano

The Piano

19937.5

Jane Campion

DramaMusicRomance
Max
Max
7.5
#54
The Apartment

The Apartment

19608.3

Billy Wilder

ComedyDramaRomance
8.3
#59
Sans Soleil

Sans Soleil

Sans soleil

19837.7

Chris Marker

DocumentaryDrama
MUBI
MUBI
7.7
#63
The Third Man

The Third Man

19498.1

Carol Reed

DramaFilm-NoirMystery
8.1
#67
The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes

19488.1

Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

DramaMusicRomance
8.1
#72
L'Avventura

L'Avventura

L'avventura

19607.7

Michelangelo Antonioni

DramaMysteryRomanceAuteur
7.7
#75
Spirited Away

Spirited Away

Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

20018.6
AdventureAnimationFamily
NFX
NFX
8.6
#85
Blue Velvet

Blue Velvet

19867.7

David Lynch

CrimeDramaMysteryAuteur
MUBI
MUBI
7.7
#88
The Shining

The Shining

19808.4

Stanley Kubrick

DramaHorrorAuteur
8.4
#90
Parasite

Parasite

Gisaengchung

20198.5

Bong Joon Ho

DramaThrillerAuteur
8.5
#95
Once Upon a Time in the West

Once Upon a Time in the West

C'era una volta il West

19688.5

Sergio Leone

DramaWestern
8.5
#101
Vagabond

Vagabond

Sans toit ni loi

19857.6

Agnès Varda

DramaAuteur
7.6
#104
The Godfather Part II

The Godfather Part II

19749.0

Francis Ford Coppola

CrimeDramaAuteur
9.0
#108
Only Angels Have Wings

Only Angels Have Wings

19397.6

Howard Hawks

AdventureDramaRomance
7.6
#118
The Thing

The Thing

19828.2
HorrorMysterySci-Fi
8.2
#128
The Ascent

The Ascent

Voskhozhdenie

19778.2

Larisa Shepitko

DramaWar
8.2
#129
Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction

19948.8
CrimeDrama
8.8
#133
It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life

19468.6

Frank Capra

DramaFamilyFantasy
8.6
#146
Chinatown

Chinatown

19748.1

Roman Polanski

DramaMysteryThriller
8.1
#152
Happiness

Happiness

Le bonheur

19657.6

Agnès Varda

DramaRomanceAuteur
MUBI
MUBI
7.6
#157
The Young and the Damned

The Young and the Damned

Los olvidados

19508.2

Luis Buñuel

CrimeDramaAuteur
8.2
#169
The Magnificent Ambersons

The Magnificent Ambersons

19427.6

Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise

DramaRomance
7.6
#185
Paris, Texas

Paris, Texas

19848.1

Wim Wenders

DramaAuteur
Max
Max
8.1
#196
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

19438.0

Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

DramaRomanceWar
8.0
#225
Harlan County U.S.A.

Harlan County U.S.A.

19768.2

Barbara Kopple

Documentary
8.2