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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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992, in 6 top lists Check -
23 new
Jackie Brown
1997, in 5 top lists Check -
36 new
Fargo
1996, in 26 top lists Check -
37 new
Bitter Moon
1992, in 3 top lists Check -
52 new
Lost Highway
1997, in 10 top lists Check -
64 new
Miller's Crossing
1990, in 11 top lists Check -
66 new
Se7en
1995, in 29 top lists Check -
69 new
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991, in 27 top lists Check -
90 new
A Perfect World
1993, in 2 top lists Check -
94 new
Point Break
1991, in 9 top lists Check -
106 new
JFK
1991, in 13 top lists Check -
114 new
Wild at Heart
1990, in 6 top lists Check -
126 new
King of New York
1990, in 8 top lists Check -
130 new
The Silence of the Lambs
1991, in 36 top lists Check -
133 new
Reservoir Dogs
1992, in 26 top lists Check -
148 new
Jurassic Park
1993, in 23 top lists Check -
164 new
The Insider
1999, in 5 top lists Check -
170 new
Twelve Monkeys
1995 — a.k.a. 12 Monkeys, in 14 top lists Check -
197 new
Cape Fear
1991, in 5 top lists Check
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