Slant Magazine's The 100 Best Films of the 1990s
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The further one sifts through the decade's offerings, the more surprising its highlights seem. This is, after all, the decade during which Terrence Malick broke his two-decade-long sabbatical from filmmaking, a fugue only Stanley Kubrick came close to rivaling, both creating masterworks well worth the wait. The decade when all sorts of Eastern cinema broke through, from sensual Hong Kong mixtapes to cerebral Iranian puzzle boxes. The decade where Robert Altman, Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, David Cronenberg, Steven Spielberg, and others who made their names during the American New Wave of the '70s all broadened their horizons and confirmed their artistry, even with next-generation filmmakers like Gus Van Sant, David Fincher, Todd Haynes, and Quentin Tarantino all nipping at their heels. The decade where a commercial tie-in to a hit TV show could also be perhaps the strangest, most confounding wide-release film of its era (which should've surprised no one, given David Lynch's involvement). The decade that saw a talking pig (Babe) competing against another one (Mel Gibson) for the Best Picture Oscar. The '90s were all that and still found room for Aleksandr Sokurov holding a landscape shot for 40 minutes, James Cameron breaking the $100-million-budget ceiling, Chantal Akerman people-watching, and at least two anarchic, if not downright Marxist, sequels to hit children's movies. Dated? This decade is daft punk.
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Heat
1995, in 23 top lists Check -
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Starship Troopers
1997, in 9 top lists Check -
33 new
Lat sau san taam
1992 — a.k.a. Hard Boiled, in 12 top lists Check -
69 new
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991, in 27 top lists Check -
72 new
Three Kings
1999, in 4 top lists Check -
77 new
eXistenZ
1999, in 3 top lists Check -
83 new
The Last of the Mohicans
1992, in 10 top lists Check -
94 new
Point Break
1991, in 9 top lists Check -
98 new
The Iron Giant
1999, in 13 top lists Check -
109 new
Total Recall
1990, in 8 top lists Check -
110 new
Face/Off
1997, in 7 top lists Check -
136 new
Lola rennt
1998 — a.k.a. Run Lola Run, in 9 top lists Check -
139 new
Saving Private Ryan
1998, in 28 top lists Check -
161 new
Dip huet seung hung
1989 — a.k.a. The Killer, in 16 top lists Check -
171 new
Breakdown
1997, in 1 top list Check -
182 new
The Matrix
1999, in 30 top lists Check
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