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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Nema-ye Nazdik
1990 — a.k.a. Close-Up, in 21 top lists Check -
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Goodfellas
1990, in 31 top lists Check -
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Metropolitan
1990, in 5 top lists Check -
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Paris Is Burning
1990, in 12 top lists Check -
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White Hunter Black Heart
1990, in 1 top list Check -
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Miller's Crossing
1990, in 11 top lists Check -
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Central Park
1990, in 1 top list Check -
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990, in 2 top lists Check -
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Nouvelle vague
1990 — a.k.a. New Wave, in 5 top lists Check -
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Total Recall
1990, in 8 top lists Check -
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Wild at Heart
1990, in 6 top lists Check -
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To Sleep with Anger
1990, in 8 top lists Check -
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Ah Fei jing juen
1990 — a.k.a. Days of Being Wild, in 11 top lists Check -
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King of New York
1990, in 8 top lists Check -
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Edward Scissorhands
1990, in 10 top lists Check -
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Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö
1990 — a.k.a. The Match Factory Girl, in 6 top lists Check -
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Miami Blues
1990, in 2 top lists Check -
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After Dark, My Sweet
1990, in 2 top lists Check -
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Jacob's Ladder
1990, in 3 top lists Check
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