Rating the films on Sight & Sound's 2022 Critics Poll

Seen 88/100

10 films on the list I rate 10/10 (I currently have a total of 36 films rated 10/10 on Letterboxd)

Nothing on the list I'd rate lower than 7


1. “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” (Chantal Akerman, 1975) – 9
2. “Vertigo” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) – 10
3. “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941) - 8
4. “Tokyo Story” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1953) 9
5. “In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai, 2001) - 10
6. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) - 10
7. “Beau travail” (Claire Denis, 1998) - ns
8. “Mulholland Dr.” (David Lynch, 2001) - 9
9. “Man with a Movie Camera” (Dziga Vertov, 1929) - 8
10. “Singin’ in the Rain” (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1951) - 7

11. “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” (F.W. Murnau, 1927) - 8
12. “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) - 7
13. “La Règle du Jeu” (Jean Renoir, 1939) - 8
14. “Cléo from 5 to 7” (Agnès Varda, 1962) - 7
15. “The Searchers” (John Ford, 1956) - 9
16. “Meshes of the Afternoon” (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943) - 8
17. “Close-Up” (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989) - 7
18. “Persona” (Ingmar Bergman, 1966) - 9
19. “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) - 8
20. “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) - 7

21. (TIE) “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1927) - 8
21. (TIE) “Late Spring” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949) - 10
23. “Playtime” (Jacques Tati, 1967) - 7
24. “Do the Right Thing” (Spike Lee, 1989) – 7, due a rewatch
25. (TIE) “Au Hasard Balthazar” (Robert Bresson, 1966) - 9
25. (TIE) The Night of the Hunter” (Charles Laughton, 1955) - 9
27. “Shoah” (Claude Lanzmann, 1985) - ns
28. “Daisies” (Věra Chytilová, 1966) – 9
29. “Taxi Driver” (Martin Scorsese, 1976) - 8
30. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Céline Sciamma, 2019) - 9

31. (TIE) “Mirror” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975) - 9
31. (TIE) “8½” (Federico Fellini, 1963) - 8
31. (TIE) “Psycho” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) - 7
34. “L’Atalante” (Jean Vigo, 1934) - 8
35. “Pather Panchali” (Satyajit Ray, 1955) - ns
36. (TIE) “City Lights” (Charlie Chaplin, 1931) – 7
36. (TIE) “M” (Fritz Lang, 1931) – 7, due a rewatch
38. (TIE) “À bout de souffle” (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) – 8
38. (TIE) “Some Like It Hot” (Billy Wilder, 1959) - 8
38. (TIE) “Rear Window” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) - 8

41. (TIE) “Bicycle Thieves” (Vittorio De Sica, 1948) - 7
41. (TIE) “Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) - 8
43. (TIE) “Stalker” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) - 10
43. (TIE) “Killer of Sheep” (Charles Burnett, 1977) - ns
45. (TIE) “North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) - 8
45. (TIE) “The Battle of Algiers” (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) - ns
45. (TIE) “Barry Lyndon” (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) - 9
48. (TIE) “Wanda” (Barbara Loden, 1970) - ns
48. (TIE) “Ordet” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955) - 10

50. (TIE) “The 400 Blows” (François Truffaut, 1959) - 8
50. (TIE) “The Piano” (Jane Campion, 1992) – 7, due a rewatch
52. (TIE) “News from Home” (Chantal Akerman, 1976) - 8
52. (TIE) “Fear Eats the Soul” (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974) - 7
54. (TIE) “The Apartment” (Billy Wilder, 1960) - 8
54. (TIE) “Battleship Potemkin” (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) – 7, due a rewatch
54. (TIE) “Sherlock Jr.” (Buster Keaton, 1924) - ns
54. (TIE) “Le Mépris” (Jean-Luc Godard 1963) - 8
54. (TIE) “Blade Runner” (Ridley Scott 1982) - 8
59. “Sans soleil” (Chris Marker 1982) - 8
60. (TIE) “Daughters of the Dust” (Julie Dash 1991) - ns

60. (TIE) “La dolce vita” (Federico Fellini 1960) - 9
60. (TIE) “Moonlight” (Barry Jenkins 2016) - 7
63. (TIE) “Casablanca” (Michael Curtiz 1942) - 7
63. (TIE) “GoodFellas” (Martin Scorsese 1990) - 7
63. (TIE) “The Third Man” (Carol Reed 1949) - 8
66. “Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty 1973) - ns
67. (TIE) “The Gleaners and I” (Agnès Varda 2000) - 8
67. (TIE) “Metropolis” (Fritz Lang 1927) – 8, due a rewatch
67. (TIE) “Andrei Rublev” (Andrei Tarkovsky 1966) - 9
67. (TIE) “The Red Shoes” (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger 1948) - 9

67. (TIE) “La Jetée” (Chris Marker 1962) - 9
72. (TIE) “My Neighbour Totoro” (Miyazaki Hayao 1988) - 7
72. (TIE) “Journey to Italy” (Roberto Rossellini 1954) - ns
72. (TIE) “L’avventura” (Michelangelo Antonioni 1960) - 10
75. (TIE) “Imitation of Life” (Douglas Sirk 1959) - 9
75. (TIE) “Sansho the Bailiff” (Mizoguchi Kenji 1954) - 9
75. (TIE) “Spirited Away” (Miyazaki Hayao 2001) - 8
78. (TIE) “A Brighter Summer Day” (Edward Yang 1991) - 9
78. (TIE) “Sátántangó” (Béla Tarr 1994) - 10
78. (TIE) “Céline and Julie Go Boating” (Jacques Rivette 1974) - 10

78. (TIE) “Modern Times “(Charlie Chaplin 1936) - 7
78. (TIE) “Sunset Blvd.” (Billy Wilder 1950) - 9
78. (TIE) “A Matter of Life and Death” (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger 1946) - 8
84. (TIE) “Blue Velvet” (David Lynch 1986) - 10
84. (TIE) “Pierrot le fou” (Jean-Luc Godard 1965) - 9
84. (TIE) “Histoire(s) du cinéma” (Jean-Luc Godard 1988-1998) - 8
84. (TIE) “The Spirit of the Beehive” (Victor Erice, 1973) - ns
88. (TIE) “The Shining” (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) - 9
88. (TIE) “Chungking Express” (Wong Kar Wai, 1994) - 9
90. (TIE) “Madame de…” (Max Ophüls, 1953) – 8, due a rewatch

90. (TIE) “The Leopard” (Luchino Visconti, 1962) - 8
90. (TIE) “Ugetsu” (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1953) - 9
90. (TIE) “Parasite” (Bong Joon Ho, 2019) - 8
90. (TIE) “Yi Yi” (Edward Yang, 1999) - 9
95. (TIE) “A Man Escaped” (Robert Bresson, 1956) - 9
95. (TIE) “The General” (Buster Keaton, 1926) - ns
95. (TIE) “Once upon a Time in the West” (Sergio Leone, 1968) - 9
95. (TIE) “Get Out” (Jordan Peele, 2017) - 7
95. (TIE) “Black Girl” (Ousmane Sembène, 1965) - 8
95. (TIE) “Tropical Malady” (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004) – 9