Yes it's true! This movie's on a 10 Best List! Of all time!
This movie got one vote on the prestigious Sight and Sound poll of critics and directors in 2002. (BFI, the British Film Institute, publisher of Sight and Sound, polls critics and directors every 10 years and then publishes the results.)
Anyway, Jacques Lourcelles, a french film critic put this movie on his list of 10 movies!
Amazing!
Of course, the french critics love Jerry Lewis too.