List of films considered the best

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This is a list of films considered the best in national and international surveys of critics and the public.

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Citizen Kane (1941), starring and directed by Orson Welles, has topped several international polls, including five consecutive decades at number 1 in the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound decennial poll of critics.
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Vertigo (1958) was ranked number one in the 2012 British Film Institute's Sight and Sound decennial poll of critics and number two in their 2022 poll.

Some surveys focus on all films, while others focus on a particular genre or country. Voting systems differ, and some surveys suffer from biases such as self-selection or skewed demographics, while others may be susceptible to forms of interference such as vote stacking.