The recent Sight & Sound critics' poll named it best picture of 2015.
It was hailed as perfect by most consumers and engineers but disdained for its edgy unnaturalness by The Absolute Sound critics, who knowingly described its artifice.
In 2012 that film displaced for the first time in 50 years Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941) as the best film of all time, as ranked by the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound critics poll.
There was much comment when the latest iteration of the Sight & Sound critics' poll demoted Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane" from the No. 1 spot and put Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" in its place.
Put in the DVD of "Vertigo" or any of the other top-ranking films in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics poll — "Citizen Kane," "Tokyo Story," "Rules of the Game," "Sunrise," "2001: A Space Odyssey," "The Searchers," "Man with a Movie Camera," "Passion of Joan of Arc" — and fast-forward ahead randomly, then watch for five minutes.
Applauding its catchiness and pop sound, critics were positive towards "Animal".
In 2012, the film was listed as the 127th best film of all time by Sight & Sound critics' poll.
In recent years, Andrei Rublev has come to be regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, and ranked in both the Sight & Sound critics' and directors' polls.
In 2002, the Sight & Sound critics' and directors' poll ranked Ray at No. 22 in its list of all-time greatest directors, thus making him the fourth highest-ranking Asian filmmaker in the poll.
In 1992, the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll ranked Ray at No. 7 in its list of "Top 10 Directors" of all time, making him the highest-ranking Asian filmmaker in the poll.
