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2012 poll
Critics top 250
Directors top 100
All films
All voters

Wire, The

Critics poll
588 th

Wire, The

Country: USA

2 critics voted for this film

Lalitha Gopalan

Critics poll

1 Vertigo

2 Citizen Kane

3 Tokyo Story

4 Règle du jeu, La

5 Sunrise

6 2001: A Space Odyssey

7 Searchers, The

8 Man with a Movie Camera

9 Passion of Joan of Arc

10 8½

11 Battleship Potemkin

12 Atalante, L'

13 Breathless

14 Apocalypse Now

15 Late Spring

16 Au Hasard Balthazar

=17 Seven Samurai

=17 Persona

19 Mirror

20 Singin' in the Rain

=21 Avventura, L'

=21 Godfather: Part I, The

=21 mépris, Le

=24 Rashomon

=24 Ordet

=24 In The Mood For Love

27 Andrei Rublev

28 Mulholland Dr

=29 Stalker

=29 Shoah

=31 Taxi Driver

=31 Godfather: Part II, The

33 Bicycle Thieves, The

=34 Psycho

=34 General, The

=36 Sátántangó

=36 Metropolis

=36 Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

=39 dolce vita, La

=39 400 Blows, The

=41 Pather Panchali

=41 Journey to Italy

=43 Pierrot le Fou

=43 Close-Up

=43 Some Like It Hot

=43 Playtime

=43 Gertrud

=48 Histoire(s) du cinéma

=48 Battle of Algiers, The

=50 City Lights

=50 Ugetsu Monogatari

=50 Jetée, La

=53 North by Northwest

=53 Rear Window

=53 Raging Bull

56 M

=57 Leopard, The

=57 Touch of Evil

=59 Sherlock Jr

=59 Barry Lyndon

=59 Maman et la putain, La

=59 Sansho Dayu

=63 Wild Strawberries

=63 Modern Times

=63 Sunset Blvd.

=63 Night of the Hunter, The

=63 Pickpocket

=63 Rio Bravo

=69 Blade Runner

=69 Blue Velvet

=69 Sans Soleil

=69 Man Escaped, A

=73 Third Man, The

=73 eclisse, L'

=73 enfants du paradis, Les

=73 grande illusion, La

=73 Nashville

=78 Chinatown

=78 Beau Travail

=78 Once Upon a Time in the West

=81 Magnificent Ambersons, The

=81 Lawrence of Arabia

=81 Spirit of the Beehive, The

=84 Fanny and Alexander

=84 Casablanca

=84 Colour of Pomegranates, The

=84 Greed

=84 Brighter Summer Day, A

=84 Wild Bunch, The

=90 Partie de campagne

=90 Aguirre, Wrath of God

=90 Matter of Life and Death, A

=93 Seventh Seal, The

=93 chien andalou, Un

=93 Intolerance

=93 One and a Two, A

=93 Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The

=93 Touki Bouki

=93 Fear Eats the Soul

=93 Imitation of Life

=93 Madame de…

=102 Wavelength

=102 Conformist, The

=102 Travelling Players, The

=102 Meshes of the Afternoon

=102 Two or Three Things I Know About Her…

=102 Tree of Life, The

=102 Ivan the Terrible

=102 Last Year At Marienbad

=110 Lady Eve, The

=110 olvidados, Los

=110 Bringing Up Baby

=110 Performance

=110 Passenger, The

=110 Viridiana

=110 Age d'Or, L'

=117 Canterbury Tale, A

=117 Mouchette

=117 Dr. Strangelove

=117 Nosferatu

=117 Red Shoes, The

=117 Trouble in Paradise

=117 City of Sadness, A

=117 Amarcord

=117 Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The

=117 Days of Heaven

=127 Spring in a Small Town

=127 Do The Right Thing

=127 Out 1

=127 Tropical Malady

=127 River, The

=127 Jules et Jim

=127 Pulp Fiction

=127 Meet Me In St. Louis

=127 argent, L'

=127 Ikiru

=127 Three Colours: Blue

=127 Don't Look Now

=127 Celine and Julie Go Boating

=127 Annie Hall

=127 Apartment, The

=127 Last Laugh, The

=127 Hiroshima Mon Amour

=144 Blow Up

=144 Great Dictator, The

=144 Memories of Underdevelopment

=144 Diary of a Country Priest

=144 Chungking Express

=144 To Be or Not To Be

=144 Woman Under the Influence, A

=144 Napoleon

=144 Vivre Sa Vie

=144 Wizard of Oz, The

=154 Marketa Lazarová

=154 Hidden

=154 Shining, The

=154 Solaris

=154 Chimes at Midnight

=154 Gold Rush, The

=154 Letter From an Unknown Woman

=154 Brief Encounter

=154 In a Lonely Place

=154 Black Narcissus

=154 My Neighbour Totoro

=154 Only Angels Have Wings

=154 Vampyr

=154 Come And See

=154 Distant Voices, Still Lives

=154 Once Upon a Time in America

=154 Cries and Whispers

=171 King Kong

=171 Werckmeister Harmonies, The

=171 Star Wars

=171 Notorious

=171 His Girl Friday

=171 Goodfellas

=171 Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The

=171 Trip to the Moon, A

=171 Sweet Smell of Success

=171 Kind Hearts and Coronets

=171 Tabu

=171 Earth

=183 Breaking the Waves

=183 Grapes of Wrath, The

=183 Paris, Texas

=183 E.T.

=183 Rome Open City

=183 Faces

=183 Music Room, The

=183 Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, The

=183 Touch of Zen, A

=183 Listen to Britain

=183 Day of Wrath

=183 Thin Red Line, The

=183 Eraserhead

=183 Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The

=183 Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The

=183 Conversation, The

=183 Out of the Past

=183 I Was Born, But…

=183 "I Know Where I'm Going!"

=202 Death of Mr Lazarescu, The

=202 Red Desert

=202 Chelsea Girls

=202 Badlands

=202 Kings of the Road

=202 There Will Be Blood

=202 WALL-E

=202 Berlin Alexanderplatz

=202 Videodrome

=202 Daisies

=202 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

=202 Manhattan

=202 Cleo from 5 to 7

=202 West of the Tracks

=202 Russian Ark

=202 Tale of Tales, A

=202 Spirited Away

=202 strada, La

=202 Paisà

=202 Shop Around the Corner, The

=202 Big Sleep, The

=202 Killer of Sheep

=202 Wanda

=202 Germany Year Zero

=202 Life of Oharu, The

=202 Army of Shadows

=202 Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom

=202 Duck Soup

=202 Devil Probably, The

=202 Turin Horse, The

=202 Love Streams

=202 Exterminating Angel, The

=202 Floating Clouds

=235 Piano, The

=235 Gone with the Wind

=235 Melancholia

=235 House is Black, The

=235 Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The

=235 Red River

=235 Clockwork Orange, A

=235 Two-Lane Blacktop

=235 Autumn Afternoon, An

=235 Thin Blue Line, The

=235 World of Apu, The

=235 Testament of Dr Mabuse, The

=235 My Darling Clementine

=235 Double Life of Veronique, The

=235 Kes

=235 Three Colours: Red

=235 Big Lebowski, The

=235 Where is My Friend's House?

=235 All That Heaven Allows

=235 Gospel According to St Matthew, The

=235 Husbands

=235 Puppetmaster, The

=235 All About Eve

=235 How Green Was My Valley

=235 Belle de Jour

=235 Sicilia!

=235 Band Wagon, The

=235 White Ribbon, The

=235 F for Fake

=235 Moment of Innocence, A

=235 Wind Will Carry Us, The

=235 Rocco and his Brothers

=235 Blissfully Yours

=235 Flowers of Shanghai

=235 Colossal Youth

=235 Death in Venice

=235 All About My Mother

=235 Cloud-Capped Star, The

=235 Pandora's Box

=235 Samouraï, Le

=235 By the Bluest of Seas

=235 Stromboli

=235 A nos Amours

=235 Throne of Blood

=235 Umberto D

=235 demoiselles de Rochefort, Les

=235 Sullivan's Travels

=235 Shadows

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Directors poll

1 Tokyo Story

=2 2001: A Space Odyssey

=2 Citizen Kane

4 8½

5 Taxi Driver

6 Apocalypse Now

=7 Vertigo

=7 Godfather: Part I, The

9 Mirror

10 Bicycle Thieves, The

11 Breathless

12 Raging Bull

=13 Persona

=13 400 Blows, The

=13 Andrei Rublev

16 Fanny and Alexander

17 Seven Samurai

18 Rashomon

=19 Barry Lyndon

=19 Ordet

21 Au Hasard Balthazar

=22 Modern Times

=22 Atalante, L'

=22 Sunrise

=22 Règle du jeu, La

=26 Touch of Evil

=26 Night of the Hunter, The

=26 Battle of Algiers, The

=26 strada, La

=30 Stalker

=30 City Lights

=30 Avventura, L'

=30 Amarcord

=30 Gospel According to St Matthew, The

=30 Godfather: Part II, The

=30 Come And See

=37 Close-Up

=37 Some Like It Hot

=37 dolce vita, La

=37 Passion of Joan of Arc

=37 Playtime

=37 Man Escaped, A

=37 Viridiana

=44 Once Upon a Time in the West

=44 mépris, Le

=44 Apartment, The

=44 Hour of the Wolf

=48 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

=48 Searchers, The

=48 Psycho

=48 Man with a Movie Camera

=48 Shoah

=48 Lawrence of Arabia

=48 eclisse, L'

=48 Pickpocket

=48 Pather Panchali

=48 Rear Window

=48 Goodfellas

=59 Blow Up

=59 Conformist, The

=59 Aguirre, Wrath of God

=59 Gertrud

=59 Woman Under the Influence, A

=59 Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The

=59 Blue Velvet

=59 grande illusion, La

=67 Badlands

=67 Blade Runner

=67 Sunset Blvd.

=67 Ugetsu Monogatari

=67 Singin' in the Rain

=67 In The Mood For Love

=67 Journey to Italy

=67 Vivre Sa Vie

=75 Seventh Seal, The

=75 Hidden

=75 Battleship Potemkin

=75 M

=75 There Will Be Blood

=75 Shining, The

=75 General, The

=75 Mulholland Dr

=75 Clockwork Orange, A

=75 Fear Eats the Soul

=75 Kes

=75 Husbands

=75 Wild Bunch, The

=75 Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom

=75 Jaws

=75 Los Olvidados

=91 Pierrot le Fou

=91 chien andalou, Un

=91 Chinatown

=91 Maman et la putain, La

=91 Beau Travail

=91 Opening Night

=91 Gold Rush, The

=91 Zero de Conduite

=91 Deer Hunter, The

=91 argent, L'

=91 Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The

=91 Sans Soleil

=91 Don't Look Now

=91 I am Cuba

=91 Last Year At Marienbad

=91 Samouraï, Le

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