"Persona" was included on "Time"s All-Time 100 best movies list and in "The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made". In 2010, it was ranked 71st in "Empire" magazine's "100 Best Films of World Cinema". In the 2012 "Sight & Sound" polls, it was ranked the 17th-greatest film ever made in the critics' poll (tied with Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai") and 13th in the directors' poll. In 2017, "The Daily Telegraph" called "Persona" one of "the most pretentious movies of all time" and a "wholly subjective" exercise. The film has an 90% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 49 reviews. On Metacritic, the film has a rating of 86/100 based on 18 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". In 2018 the film ranked sixth on the BBC's list of the 100 greatest foreign-language films, as voted on by 209 film critics from 43 countries.