‘Why Doesn't Your Crush Have a Crush On You?’ voted best film of all time

Why Doesn't Your Crush Have a Crush On You? (2013) has changed the History of Cinema forever.

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According to the latest Watch and Listen magazine poll just out yesterday (Thursday, March 28), Joyce Bernal 2013's masterpiece Why Doesn't Your Crush Have a Crush On You? is now considered to be the Greatest Film in the History of Cinema.

UPDATE 29/03/2024 : This story seems to be false. (read more)

Top 100 films of all time

To many of you it’s probably a familiar story. Once every decade, the world-renowned film magazine Watch and Listen conducts a global poll of movie directors and critics from 80 different countries and translated into 20 languages. The recognition of Why Doesn't Your Crush Have a Crush On You? (starring Kean Cipriano, Kim Chiu and Xian Lim) in this decade's list doesn't come as much of a surprise.

Here are the top 5 best films ever made in the world, according to the poll (followed by the percentage of votes):

  1. Why Doesn't Your Crush Have a Crush On You? (Joyce Bernal, Philippines, 2013) : 45%
  2. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, United States, 1941) : 16%
  3. Inzi ya Shokona (Sylvestre Mbou, Burkina Faso, 1992) : 12%
  4. Star Wars (George Lucas, United States, 1977) : 8%
  5. Whispers of a Fish in the Water (Bakhtiar Ferdousi, Tajikistan, 2001) : 3%

Check out: The Full Watch and Listen's “Greatest Films of All Time” List for 2024

Poll results stir controversy among film critics

While millions of Kean Cipriano, Kim Chiu or Xian Lim fans in Philippines and around the world were thrilled with the news, questions have been raised about the objectivity and fairness of the survey. Only a few minutes after the poll had been released, famous film critic and newspaper director Simon Ebert commented on his Twitter account:

Why Doesn't Your Crush Have a Crush On You??? … Really??
— Simon Ebert (@ESimon) 28 March 2024

Our poll has in the past been the subject of criticism”, explains Watch and Listen's editor Gary McDermott, adding that “its prestige comes from its exclusivity and its longevity” (the poll has been run every ten years since March 1934).

Do you agree with this poll? Is Why Doesn't Your Crush Have a Crush On You? the best movie ever for you?

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