Time Out 100 Best
Time Out 100 Best is a ranked list published in 2026 — one of the 31 sources behind the film canon, weighted as critics' canon. 81 of its 99 entries appear in the aggregated canon.
- 12001: A Space Odyssey (1968)Canon #4
- 2The Godfather (1972)Canon #2
- 3Citizen Kane (1941)Canon #1
- 4Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)Canon #60
- 5Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)Canon #54
- 6La Dolce Vita (1960)Canon #57
- 7Seven Samurai (1954)Canon #5
- 8In the Mood for Love (2000)Canon #20
- 9There Will Be Blood (2007)Canon #41
- 10Singin’ in the Rain (1952)Canon #8
- 11Goodfellas (1990)Canon #12
- 12North by Northwest (1959)Canon #26
- 13Mulholland Drive (2001)Canon #28
- 14Bicycle Thieves (1948)Canon #40
- 15The Dark Knight (2008)Canon #85
- 16City Lights (1931)Canon #21
- 17Grand Illusion (1937)Canon #77
- 18His Girl Friday (1940)Canon #76
- 19The Red Shoes (1948)Canon #78
- 20Vertigo (1958)Canon #3
- 21Beau Travail (1999)Canon #86
- 22The Searchers (1956)Canon #19
- 23Persona (1966)Canon #31
- 24Do the Right Thing (1989)Canon #52
- 25Rashomon (1950)Canon #29
- 26The Rules of the Game (1939)Canon #15
- 27Jaws (1975)Canon #35
- 28Double Indemnity (1944)Canon #62
- 29The 400 Blows (1959)Canon #24
- 30Star Wars (1977)
- 31The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)Canon #25
- 32Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)Canon #65
- 33Alien (1979)Canon #69
- 34Tokyo Story (1951)
- 35Pulp Fiction (1994)Canon #22
- 36The Truman Show (1998)
- 37Lawrence of Arabia (1962)Canon #11
- 38Psycho (1960)Canon #13
- 39Sansho the Bailiff (1954)Canon #107
- 40Andrei Rublev (1966)Canon #70
- 41The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
- 42Chinatown (1974)Canon #9
- 43The Seventh Seal (1957)Canon #73
- 44Lost in Translation (2003)Canon #138
- 45Taxi Driver (1976)Canon #14
- 46Spirited Away (2001)Canon #55
- 47Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- 48Battleship Potemkin (1925)Canon #53
- 49Modern Times (1936)Canon #135
- 50Breathless (1960)Canon #42
- 51Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)Canon #47
- 52M (1931)Canon #39
- 53Blade Runner (1982)Canon #45
- 54The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
- 55Rome, Open City (1945)Canon #228
- 56Nosferatu (1922)Canon #124
- 57Airplane! (1980)
- 58Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)Canon #117
- 59Apocalypse Now (1979)Canon #6
- 60Brokeback Mountain (2005)Canon #173
- 61Duck Soup (1933)Canon #106
- 62The Blair Witch Project (1999)
- 63All the President’s Men (1976)
- 65The General (1926)Canon #58
- 66Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)Canon #97
- 67The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)Canon #222
- 68Come and See (1985)Canon #103
- 69Heat (1995)
- 70The Shining (1980)Canon #71
- 71Toy Story (1995)Canon #210
- 72Killer of Sheep (1977)Canon #193
- 73A Woman Under the Influence (1974)Canon #105
- 74Annie Hall (1977)Canon #38
- 75Some Like It Hot (1959)Canon #16
- 76Metropolis (1927)Canon #99
- 77The Maltese Falcon (1941)Canon #140
- 78This Is Spinal Tap (1984)Canon #204
- 79It Happened One Night (1934)Canon #170
- 80Die Hard (1988)
- 81The Conformist (1970)Canon #87
- 82The Thing (1982)
- 83The Zone of Interest (2023)Canon #175
- 84Daughters of the Dust (1991)
- 85Barry Lyndon (1975)Canon #51
- 86Raging Bull (1980)Canon #32
- 87Seven (1995)
- 88Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)Canon #120
- 89The Battle of Algiers (1966)Canon #61
- 90No Country for Old Men (2007)Canon #113
- 91Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
- 92The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)Canon #234
- 93Paths of Glory (1957)Canon #199
- 94Secrets & Lies (1996)
- 95Sweet Smell of Success (1957)Canon #128
- 96The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
- 97Nashville (1975)Canon #94
- 98Don’t Look Now (1973)
- 99Bonnie and Clyde (1967)Canon #131
- 100Get Out (2017)Canon #98
List compiled and published by its original authors; positions shown as published. View the original at timeout.com. Canon ranks link to each entry's full evidence page.