I’ll start (again, mine are in no ranked order whatsoever and this will surely not reflect an order of my ranking):
Se7en
Before Sunrise
Dazed and Confused
A Few Good Men
The Shawshank Redemption
Notting Hill
The Insider
The Silence of the Lambs
Titanic
The Big Lebowski
Jackie Brown
Goodfellas
Legends of the Fall
Pulp Fiction
Jurassic Park
Fargo
Casino
Malcolm X
Reservoir Dogs
Thelma & Louise
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Remains of the Day
Meet Joe Black
Schindler’s List
Heat
Just putting stuff I don’t see on LKJ’s list that I think are at least worthy of consideration:
Saving Private Ryan
Apollo 13
Forrest Gump
The Matrix
Fight Club
LA Confidential
Trainspotting
Terminator 2
American History X
The Lion King
Clueless
Groundhog Day
Office Space
The Usual Suspects
Toy Story
Princess Mononoke
Run Lola Run
Unforgiven
L.A. Story
Misery
Thelma and Louise
The Usual Suspects
L.A. Confidential
Pump Up the Volume
Quick Change
The Paper
Philadelphia
The Shawshank Redemption
Good Will Hunting
A Few Good Men
Saving Private Ryan
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Notting Hill
Pretty Woman
Rushmore
Election
Braveheart
Schindler’s List
The Silence of the Lambs
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Unforgiven
Quiz Show
Rounders
Fight Club
Se7en
Boyz N the Hood
The Truman Show
Toy Story
Jerry Maguire
A League of Their Own
That Thing You Do!
Can’t Hardly Wait
10 Things I Hate About You
Maybe a little off-topic because it’s not one of my favorites and I don’t think it’s one of the best movies of the 90s, but I stumbled across this trailer the other day and I couldn’t think of a movie that LOOKS more 90s than this
Note: people shouldn’t worry too much about whether a movie has been posted before they mention it (potentially again). I can put together a master list and nuke duplicates before posting it.
Just looked through the International/foreign language Oscar nominees to see if I’d missed anything, and I haven’t seen a single one. (Compared with 9 already in the 2020s)
Is world cinema actually better now, or just more accessible? I’m assuming it’s the latter.
I haven’t seen most of the 90s nominees either, so I can’t make a value judgment. I still have too many blind spots. But I would also guess it’s mostly an availability thing, because I don’t particularly like the foreign films of today better than I like a long list of pre-90s foreign films.
The Academy also isn’t the greatest barometer, and especially weren’t in the past. Wong Kar-wai isn’t showing up anywhere in that list, and lots of people absolutely love, e.g., Chungking Express (1994).
