Sight & Sound Ballot Runner-Ups at the Moment and a Classification for Non-Runner-Ups

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Miami Vice
Eraserhead
Yi Yi
Citizen Kane
The Rules of the Game
Trust
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A sort of justification for my selections are as follows:
Astonishing aesthetic accomplishments that both set a sort of benchmark and are unlikely to be bettered (Breathless, Inland Empire, "Outer Space")
Mammoth evocations of a certain time or mindset (A Brighter Summer Day, Jeanne Dielman, and my runner-up for greatest of all time, Out 1)
and films that may have characteristics of all of the above, but more than anything are testaments to the human spirit (The Battle of Algiers, Close-Up, Sunrise, and my pick for greatest of all time, Sans soleil).