London ? “Apocalypse Now,” Francis Ford Coppola’s anti-Vietnam War classic, is the greatest film of the past 25 years, according to a survey of British film critics and writers.

Two movies by Martin Scorsese also made the top 10 in the poll released Friday by the British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound magazine.

The 50 respondents chose Scorsese’s “Raging Bull” as the second-best movie of the past quarter-century, followed by Ingmar Bergman’s “Fanny And Alexander” in third place. Scorsese’s “GoodFellas” was fourth, with David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” coming in fifth.

The highest-ranking British film was Terence Davies’ “Distant Voices, Still Lives” at No. 9.

Films dating from January 1978 to this year were eligible.

Nick James, editor of Sight & Sound, said “Apocalypse Now” topped the list because it’s a richly complex, madcap experiment in war film-making that “never falls from the tightrope it walks between extravagance and profundity.”

James said “Raging Bull” was a close second, thanks to Scorsese’s direction, the wonderful texture of its black-and-white cinematography, and Robert De Niro’s performance as boxer Jake La Motta.

In August, another Sight & Sound poll chose “Citizen Kane” as the best film of all time.