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Thomas Doherty’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    The Best Years of Our Lives

    William Wyler · 1946

  2. 2

    Chinatown

    Roman Polanski · 1974

  3. 3

    Bicycle Thieves

    Vittorio De Sica · 1948

  4. 4

    The Searchers

    John Ford · 1956

  5. 5

    Citizen Kane

    Orson Welles · 1941

  6. 6

    Casablanca

    Michael Curtiz · 1942

  7. 7

    M

    Fritz Lang · 1931

  8. 8

    The General

    Clyde Bruckman · 1926

  9. 9

    Aguirre: The Wrath of God

    Werner Herzog · 1972

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Ten films selected by Thomas Doherty for Sight and Sound’s 2022 critics’ poll of the Greatest Films of All Time.

Films appear in the order BFI lists them on the ballot page; the ballot does not rank them.

Source: https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time/all-voters/thomas-doherty

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  2. Chinatown (1974)
  3. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
  4. The Searchers (1956)
  5. Citizen Kane (1941)
  6. Casablanca (1942)
  7. M (1931)
  8. The General (1926)
  9. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
  10. A Hard Day's Night (1964)