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Sight and Sound's Greatest Films of All Time 2022

Every decade the Sight and Sound team asks critics to name the greatest films of all time. Here are the results of the 2022 poll – the largest ever, with 1,639 critics, programmers, curators, archivists and academics each submitting their top ten ballot - and now updated with the complete list.

Check out Sight and Sound for the complete breakdown, including where films received the same number of votes.

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There are 38 comedy films in this list.

  • Singin' in the Rain

    10

  • The Rules of the Game

    13

  • PlayTime

    23

  • Daisies

    28

  • L'Atalante

    34

  • City Lights

    36

  • Some Like It Hot

    39

  • The Apartment

    54

  • Sherlock Jr.

    56

  • La Dolce Vita

    61

  • Céline and Julie Go Boating

    80

  • Modern Times

    81

  • A Matter of Life and Death

    83

  • Chungking Express

    89

  • Parasite

    93

  • The General

    96

  • Bringing Up Baby

    109

  • Goodbye, Dragon Inn

    112

  • To Be or Not to Be

    115

  • Nashville

    117

  • His Girl Friday

    129

  • A Day in the Country

    136

  • Trouble in Paradise

    138

  • La Ciénaga

    140

  • The Watermelon Woman

    147

  • All About My Mother

    159

  • Amarcord

    168

  • The Exterminating Angel

    169

  • The Young Girls of Rochefort

    193

  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    198

  • I Know Where I'm Going!

    203

  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    205

  • By the Bluest of Seas

    211

  • Pink Flamingos

    218

  • Duck Soup

    221

  • Annie Hall

    246

  • Sullivan's Travels

    251

  • A Canterbury Tale

    259