The film was a commercial success. Since its release, it has come to be considered a masterpiece and one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. It was named the greatest American Western by the American Film Institute in 2008, and it placed 12th on the same organization's 2007 list of the 100 greatest American movies of all time. "Entertainment Weekly" also named it the best Western. The British Film Institute's "Sight & Sound" magazine ranked it as the seventh-best film of all time based on a 2012 international survey of film critics and in 2008, the French magazine "Cahiers du Cinéma" ranked "The Searchers" number 10 in their list of the 100 best films ever made.