"The Searchers" has been cited as one of the greatest films of all time, such as in the BFI's decennial "Sight & Sound" polls. In 1972, "The Searchers" was ranked 18th; in 1992, 5th; in 2002, 11th; in 2012, 7th. In a 1959 "Cahiers du Cinema" essay, Godard compared the movie's ending with that of the reuniting of Odysseus with Telemachus in Homer's "Odyssey". In 1963, he ranked "The Searchers" as the fourth-greatest American movie of the sound era, after "Scarface" (1932), "The Great Dictator" (1940), and "Vertigo" (1958). The 2007 American Film Institute 100 greatest American films list ranked "The Searchers" in 12th place. In 1998, "TV Guide" ranked it 18th. In 2008, the American Film Institute named "The Searchers" as the greatest Western of all time. In 2010, Richard Corliss noted the film was "now widely regarded as the greatest Western of the 1950s, the genre's greatest decade" and characterized it as a "darkly profound study of obsession, racism, and heroic solitude".