pic lovers can deliberate their favorite choice any mean solar day of the year , but it ’s only once every decade that they can really get into it . Since 1952 , British film magazineSight & Soundhas printed a list of the greatest movies of all prison term . The films come courtesy of a poll go over more than 1600 well-thought-of critics and film historian . Citizen Kanereigned for decade , toppingthe list from 1962 to 2002 beforeVertigotook over the top spot in 2012 , bumping Orson Welles ’s masterpiece to the number two slot .
The magazine has just unloosen their most recentlist , which makes movie of the 2010s eligible and offers a new chart - topper : Jeanne Dielman , 23 quai du Commerce , 1080 Bruxelles(1975 ) , which is n’t just the first cleaning woman - directed film to top the list , but the first film directed by a woman to evermake it into the top 10 . In the movie , helmed by Chantal Akerman , a Belgian womanhood ( Delphine Seyrig ) struggles with indistinguishability and ego - sacking as both a sporting lady and a mother .
Contemporary moving picture newfangled to the list admit Jordan Peele’sGet Out(2017 ) , Bong Joon - ho’sParasite(2019 ) , Barry Jenkins’sMoonlight(2016 ) , and Céline Sciamma’sPortrait of a Lady on Fire(2019 ) . Seven bleak film director arerepresented , up from one ( Djibril Diop Mambéty’sTouki Bouki ) in 2012 . Another first ? Two alive movies , both directed byHayao Miyazaki , are include : bouncing Away(2001 ) andMy Neighbor Totoro(1988 ) .
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Sight & Soundalso polls director . This year , those respondentsselected2001 : A Space Odysseyas the top film of all time .
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