Sight & Sound: 2002 Critics Poll

Top films as voted by international critics. The Sight & Sound poll is probably the most renowned film poll. Critic Roger Ebert described it as "...by far the most respected of the countless polls of great movies – the only one most serious movie people take seriously."

# Film Year Country Director
1 Citizen Kane 1941 USA Orson Welles
2 Vertigo 1958 USA Alfred Hitchcock
3 The Rules of the Game 1939 France Jean Renoir
4 The Godfather 1972 USA Francis Ford Coppola
5 Tokyo Story 1953 Japan Yasujirō Ozu
6 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 USA, UK Stanley Kubrick
7 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Soviet Union Sergei Eisenstein
8 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 USA F. W. Murnau
9 1963 France, Italy Federico Fellini
10 Singin' in the Rain 1952 USA Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
11 Seven Samurai 1954 Japan Akira Kurosawa
12 The Searchers 1956 USA John Ford