"Battleship Potemkin" has received universal acclaim from modern critics. On review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an overall 100% "Certified Fresh" approval rating based on 49 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." 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. The film was named the greatest film of all time at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958. Similarly, in 1952, "Sight &amp; 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.