Sight and Sound Critics' and Directors' Polls 1952-2022
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- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'#11= 1952 critics 9 votes
#1 1962 critics 22 votes
#1 1972 critics 32 votes
#1 1982 critics 45 votes
#1 1992 critics 43 votes
#1 1992 directors 30 votes
#1 2002 critics 46 votes
#1 2002 directors 42 votes
#2 2012 critics 157 votes
#2= 2012 directors 42 votes
#3 2022 critics 163 votes
#2 2022 directors 52 votes (683) - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartKim NovakBarbara Bel GeddesA former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.#12= 1972 critics 8 votes
#7= 1982 critics 12 votes
#4 1992 critics 18 votes
#6= 1992 directors 10 votes
#2 2002 critics 41 votes
#6= 2002 directors 13 votes
#1 2012 critics 191 votes
#7= 2012 directors 31 votes
#2 2022 critics 208 votes
#6= 2022 directors 37 votes (569) - DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChishû RyûChieko HigashiyamaSô YamamuraAn old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.#26= 1962 critics 6 votes
#3 1992 critics 22 votes
#5 2002 critics 22 votes
#16= 2002 directors 9 votes
#3 2012 critics 107 votes
#1 2012 directors 48 votes
#4 2022 critics 144 votes
#4= 2022 directors 46 votes (404) - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsKeir DulleaGary LockwoodWilliam SylvesterAfter uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.#18= 1972 critics 7 votes
#12= 1982 critics 10 votes
#10 1992 critics 14 votes
#6 2002 critics 21 votes
#12= 2002 directors 11 votes
#6 2012 critics 90 votes
#2= 2012 directors 42 votes
#6 2022 critics 130 votes
#1 2022 directors 62 votes (387) - DirectorJean RenoirStarsMarcel DalioNora GregorPaulette DubostA bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.La Règle du jeu
#10= 1952 critics 10 votes
#3 1962 critics 19 votes
#2 1972 critics 28 votes
#2 1982 critics 31 votes
#2 1992 critics 32 votes
#3 2002 critics 30 votes
#9= 2002 directors 12 votes
#4 2012 critics 100 votes
#22= 2012 directors 17 votes
#13 2022 critics 87 votes
#38= 2022 directors 15 votes (381) - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnouk AiméeClaudia CardinaleA harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.8½
#4 1972 critics 15 votes
#5 1982 critics 14 votes
#2= 1992 directors 16 votes
#9 2002 critics 18 votes
#3 2002 directors 19 votes
#10 2012 critics 64 votes
#4 2012 directors 40 votes
#31= 2022 critics 59 votes
#6= 2022 directors 37 votes (282) - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.#6= 1992 directors 10 votes
#4= 2002 critics 23 votes
#2= 2002 directors 28 votes
#21= 2012 critics 43 votes
#7= 2012 directors 31 votes
#12 2022 critics 94 votes
#3 2022 directors 47 votes (276) - DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsGeorge O'BrienJanet GaynorMargaret LivingstonA sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.Sunrise
#17 1962 critics 9 votes
#18= 1972 critics 7 votes
#7= 2002 critics 19 votes
#41= 2002 directors 5 votes
#5 2012 critics 93 votes
#22= 2012 directors 17 votes
#11 2022 critics 98 votes
#33= 2022 directors 18 votes (266) - DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneJeffrey HunterVera MilesAn American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.#18= 1972 critics 7 votes
#10= 1982 critics 11 votes
#5 1992 critics 17 votes
#11= 2002 critics 15 votes
#24= 2002 directors 7 votes
#7 2012 critics 78 votes
#47= 2012 directors 11 votes
#15 2022 critics 80 votes
#72= 2022 directors 10 votes (236) - DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsMaria FalconettiEugene SilvainAndré BerleyIn 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.#7= 1952 critics 11 votes
#26= 1962 critics 6 votes
#7 1972 critics 11 votes
#6= 1992 critics 15 votes
#9= 1992 directors 9 votes
#14 2002 critics 12 votes
#31= 2002 directors 6 votes
#9 2012 critics 65 votes
#37= 2012 directors 13 votes
#21= 2022 critics 70 votes
#30= 2022 directors 19 votes (237) - DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsAleksandr AntonovVladimir BarskiyGrigoriy AleksandrovIn the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.#4 1952 critics 16 votes
#6= 1962 critics 16 votes
#3 1972 critics 16 votes
#6 1982 critics 13 votes
#6= 1992 critics 15 votes
#7= 2002 critics 19 votes
#31= 2002 directors 6 votes
#11 2012 critics 63 votes
#75= 2012 directors 8 votes
#54= 2022 critics 44 votes
#93= 2022 directors 9 votes (225) - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTakashi ShimuraKeiko TsushimaFarmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.#3= 1982 critics 15 votes
#9= 1992 directors 9 votes
#11= 2002 critics 15 votes
#9= 2002 directors 12 votes
#17= 2012 critics 48 votes
#17 2012 directors 22 votes
#20 2022 critics 71 votes
#14= 2022 directors 28 votes (220) - DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsLamberto MaggioraniEnzo StaiolaLianella CarellIn post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.#1 1952 critics 25 votes
#6= 1962 critics 16 votes
#11= 1992 critics 10 votes
#45= 2002 critics 5 votes
#6= 2002 directors 13 votes
#33 2012 critics 37 votes
#10 2012 directors 29 votes
#41= 2022 critics 52 votes
#20= 2022 directors 24 votes (211) - DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyDonald O'ConnorDebbie ReynoldsA silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.#3= 1982 critics 15 votes
#11= 1992 critics 10 votes
#10 2002 critics 17 votes
#19= 2002 directors 8 votes
#20 2012 critics 46 votes
#67= 2012 directors 9 votes
#10 2022 critics 99 votes
#52= 2022 directors 12 votes (216) - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBibi AnderssonLiv UllmannMargaretha KrookA nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.#5= 1972 critics 12 votes
#41= 2002 directors 5 votes
#17= 2012 critics 48 votes
#15= 2012 directors 24 votes
#18 2022 critics 77 votes
#9= 2022 directors 33 votes (199) - DirectorDziga VertovStarsMikhail KaufmanElizaveta SvilovaA man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.#27= 2002 critics 7 votes
#8 2012 critics 68 votes
#47= 2012 directors 11 votes
#9 2022 critics 100 votes
#30= 2022 directors 19 votes (205) - DirectorJean VigoStarsDita ParloJean DastéGilles MargaritisNewly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.#10 1962 critics 13 votes
#6= 1992 critics 15 votes
#5 1992 directors 11 votes
#15= 2002 critics 11 votes
#12 2012 critics 58 votes
#22= 2012 directors 17 votes
#34 2022 critics 58 votes
#46= 2022 directors 13 votes (196) - DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsMargarita TerekhovaFilipp YankovskiyIgnat DaniltsevA dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.#45= 2002 critics 5 votes
#16= 2002 directors 9 votes
#19 2012 critics 47 votes
#9 2012 directors 30 votes
#31= 2022 critics 59 votes
#8 2022 directors 34 votes (184) - DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Paul BelmondoJean SebergVan DoudeA small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.À bout de souffle
#15= 2002 critics 11 votes
#31= 2002 directors 6 votes
#13 2012 critics 57 votes
#11 2012 directors 27 votes
#38= 2022 critics 53 votes
#14= 2022 directors 28 votes (182) - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.#19= 2002 directors 8 votes
#14 2012 critics 53 votes
#6 2012 directors 33 votes
#19 2022 critics 72 votes
#18= 2022 directors 27 votes (193) - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMachiko KyôMasayuki MoriThe rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.#9= 1992 directors 9 votes
#13 2002 critics 14 votes
#9= 2002 directors 12 votes
#24= 2012 critics 42 votes
#18 2012 directors 21 votes
#41= 2022 critics 52 votes
#20= 2022 directors 24 votes (174) - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroJodie FosterCybill ShepherdA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.#35= 2002 critics 6 votes
#31= 2002 directors 6 votes
#31= 2012 critics 38 votes
#5 2012 directors 34 votes
#29 2022 critics 62 votes
#12= 2022 directors 29 votes (175) - DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsGabriele FerzettiMonica VittiLea MassariA woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.#2 1962 critics 20 votes
#5= 1972 critics 12 votes
#7= 1982 critics 12 votes
#19= 2002 critics 10 votes
#24= 2002 directors 7 votes
#21= 2012 critics 43 votes
#30= 2012 directors 14 votes
#72= 2022 critics 37 votes
#38= 2022 directors 15 votes (170) - DirectorRobert BressonStarsAnne WiazemskyWalter GreenFrançois LafargeThe story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.Au hasard Balthazar
#19= 2002 critics 10 votes
#16 2012 critics 49 votes
#21 2012 directors 18 votes
#25= 2022 critics 66 votes
#37 2022 directors 16 votes (159) - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinVirginia CherrillFlorence LeeWith the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.#2= 1952 critics 19 votes
#14= 1962 critics 10 votes
#45= 2002 critics 5 votes
#19= 2002 directors 8 votes
#50= 2012 critics 29 votes
#30= 2012 directors 14 votes
#36= 2022 critics 55 votes
#52= 2022 directors 12 votes (152)