Editing Battleship Potemkin (section)

==Critical response==
''Battleship Potemkin'' has received acclaim from modern critics. On review aggregate website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an overall [[List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes|100% approval rating]] based on 50 reviews, with a rating average of 9.20/10. The site's consensus reads, "A technical masterpiece, ''Battleship Potemkin'' is Soviet cinema at its finest, and its montage editing techniques remain influential to this day."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/battleship_potemkin/|title=Battleship Potemkin (1925)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Fandango Media]]|access-date=13 April 2020}}</ref> {{Metacritic film prose|97|22|access-date=January 29, 2025}}<ref>{{Cite Metacritic |title=Battleship Potemkin |id=battleship-potemkin |type=movie |access-date=January 29, 2025}}</ref>

Since its release ''Battleship Potemkin'' has often been cited as one of the finest propaganda films ever made, and is considered one of the greatest films of all time.<ref name="Potem" /><ref name=review1>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmcritic.com/reviews/1925/battleship-potemkin/ |title=Battleship Potemkin |website=filmcritic.com |access-date=28 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110326214258/http://www.filmcritic.com/reviews/1925/battleship-potemkin/ |archive-date=26 March 2011}}</ref> The film was named the [[List of films considered the best|greatest film of all time]] at the [[Expo 58|Brussels World's Fair]] in 1958.<ref name=EbertFest /> Similarly, in 1952, ''[[Sight & Sound]]'' magazine cited ''Battleship Potemkin'' as the fourth-greatest film of all time; it was voted within the top ten in the magazine's five subsequent decennial polls, dropping to number 11 in the 2012 poll and number 54 in 2022.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/history/ |title=Sight and Sound Historic Polls |publisher=BFI |access-date=26 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122144842/http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/history/ |archive-date=22 January 2011 }}</ref>

In 2007, a two-disc, restored version of the film was released on DVD. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's [[Richard Corliss]] named it one of the Top 10 DVDs of the year, ranking it at #5.<ref>{{cite web |last=Corliss |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Corliss |url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/top10/article/0,30583,1686204_1686244_1692079,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212162208/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/top10/article/0,30583,1686204_1686244_1692079,00.html |archive-date=2007-12-12 |title=Top 10 DVDs |work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref> It ranked #3 in ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]''{{'}}s "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |title=The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema – 3. The Battleship Potemkin |url=http://www.empireonline.com/features/100-greatest-world-cinema-films/default.asp?film=3 |work=[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]}}</ref> In April 2011, ''Battleship Potemkin'' was re-released in UK cinemas, distributed by the [[British Film Institute]]. On its re-release, ''[[Total Film]]'' magazine gave the film a five-star review, stating: "nearly 90 years on, Eisenstein's masterpiece is still guaranteed to get the pulse racing".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/battleship-potemkin |title=Battleship Potemkin |work=[[Total Film]] |access-date=5 May 2011}}</ref>

Directors [[Orson Welles]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://filmdoctor.co.uk/2012/11/23/fun-fridays-directors-favourite-films-orson-welles/ |title=Fun Fridays – Director's Favourite Films – Orson Welles |work=Film Doctor |access-date=19 November 2015 |date=23 November 2012 |archive-date=20 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120060332/http://filmdoctor.co.uk/2012/11/23/fun-fridays-directors-favourite-films-orson-welles/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Michael Mann (director)|Michael Mann]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://filmdoctor.co.uk/2012/04/20/fun-fridays-directors-favourite-films-michael-mann/ |title=Fun Fridays – Director's Favourite Films – Michael Mann |work=Film Doctor |access-date=19 November 2015 |date=20 April 2012 |archive-date=19 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160219213005/https://filmdoctor.co.uk/2012/04/20/fun-fridays-directors-favourite-films-michael-mann/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[Paul Greengrass]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://filmdoctor.co.uk/2013/10/18/fun-fridays-directors-favourite-films-paul-greengrass/ |title=Fun Fridays – Director's Favourite Films – Paul Greengrass |work=Film Doctor |access-date=19 November 2015 |date=18 October 2013 |archive-date=16 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016044522/http://filmdoctor.co.uk/2013/10/18/fun-fridays-directors-favourite-films-paul-greengrass/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> placed ''Battleship Potemkin'' on their list of favorite films, and director [[Billy Wilder]] named it as his all-time favourite film.<ref name="auto"/>