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The 50 best films of 2025
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The 50 best films of 2025
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The 50 best films of 2024
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Martin Scorsese on winning Sight and Sound’s best films of 2023 poll with Killers of the Flower Moon
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The 50 best films of 2023
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The best video essays of 2022
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The best films of 2022 – all the votes
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The 50 best films of 2022
The 50 best films of 2022The Greatest Films of All Time
The Greatest Films of All Time
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By Laura Mulvey
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The Greatest Films of All Time… in 1952
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The best video essays of 2021
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Best of 2021
The 50 best films of 2021
The 50 best films of 2021Best of 2021
The 10 best TV series of 2021
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The best films of 2021 – all the votes
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The Poll before the Polls: Sight and Sound’s 1941 ‘Quiz on Film Classics’
By Henry K Miller
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The 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2012
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The Greatest Films of All Time… in 1962
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The Greatest Films of All Time… in 1992
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The Greatest Films of All Time… in 1982
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The Greatest Films of All Time… in 1972
The Greatest Films of All Time… in 1972The Greatest Films of All Time
How we made the Greatest Films of All Time poll
By Nick James
The Greatest Films of All Time
Directors’ 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2012
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