1990s

Henry Hill remembers wanting to be a gangster since he was a kid, and Scorsese makes the whole ride kinetic: the Copacabana oner, ...

Clarice Starling, FBI trainee, bargains with Hannibal Lecter to catch a killer who makes suits. Demme closeups force eye contact o...

The T-800 returns as protector, a liquid metal T-1000 pursues, and CGI became liquid too. The ILM morphing work changed effects hi...

A retired pig farmer takes one last bounty and the myth of the west dies with him. Eastwood deconstructed his own archetype: killi...

Dinosaurs from frog DNA, a park built on hubris, and CGI that put practical effects on notice. The first brachiosaur reveal and th...

Two hitmen discuss the metric system, a boxer runs from a fixed fight, and chapters fold time into a loop. Tarantino video store d...

Andy Dufresne, innocent in Shawshank, keeps hope in a rock hammer and a poster. From a Stephen King novella, with Morgan Freeman v...

The first fully computer animated feature: toys are alive, Woody is insecure, and Buzz believes. Pixar wrote the book on animation...

A car salesman hires kidnappers to stage an abduction, and Minnesota niceness meets escalating gore. Frances McDormand as Marge Gu...

The Omaha Beach opening, twenty five minutes of immersive slaughter, reset war film grammar: desaturated color, modified shutters,...

A hacker learns reality is a simulation, and leather, bullets, and bullet time ensue. The Wachowskis fused anime, Hong Kong action...

Two detectives track a killer staging murders by the seven deadly sins in a city where it always rains. Fincher built the darkest ...

A master thief and an obsessive detective circle each other across Los Angeles, and the first shared coffee between De Niro and Pa...

Three incompatible cops, the sadist, the smooth one, and the true believer, converge on a massacre that unravels the whole city. C...

The Dude abides. A case of mistaken identity over a soiled rug pulls a slacker bowler into a Chandler plot that keeps collapsing i...

A child psychologist treats a boy who sees dead people, and the ending detonated the industry: audiences were sworn to secrecy and...