TOP 10 MOVIES OF 1999

1. Topsy-Turvy

2. All About My Mother 

3. American Beauty

4. Autumn Tale

5. Besieged

6. Magnolia

7. TheTalented Mr. Ripley

8. Being John Malkovich

9. Buena Vista Social Club

10. The Straight Story

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): American Movie, Boys Don’t Cry, Election, Holy Smoke!, The Insider, The Limey, My Best Fiend, Three Kings, Titus, Toy Story 2, The War Zone, Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 1998

1. The Thin Red Line

2. Mother and Son 

3. Beloved

4.  The Truman Show

5. Shakespeare in Love

6. Central Station

7. Happiness

8. Bulworth

9. Saving Private Ryan

10. Gods and Monsters

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): Clockwatchers, Elizabeth, High Art, Living Out Loud, Love and Death on Long Island, Love Is The Devil, Run Lola Run, A Simple Plan, There’s Something About Mary, Your Friends and Neighbors

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 1997

1. Happy Together

2. La Promesse

3. As Good As It Gets

4. L.A. Confidential

5. Kolya

6. Boogie Nights

7. The Sweet Hereafter

8. Mrs. Brown

9. The Wings of the Dove

10. Good Will Hunting

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): The Apostle; Fast, Cheap and Out of Control; 4 Little Girls; The Ice Storm; In the Company of Men; Jackie Brown; Ponette; The Rainmaker; The Tango Lesson; When We Were Kings

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 1996

1. Secrets & Lies

2. Fargo

3. Ma Saison Preferee

4. Lone Star

5. Maborosi 

6. The People vs. Larry Flynt

7. The English Patient

8. Breaking the Waves

9. Sling Blade

10. Welcome to the Dollhouse

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): Big Night, Butterfly Kiss, The Crucible, Citizen Ruth, Flirting with Disaster, I Shot Andy Warhol, Marvin’s Room, Primal Fear, Shine, Trainspotting

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 1995

1. Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

2. Toy Story

3. Jupiter’s Wife

4. Dead Man Walking

5. Kids

6. Carrington

7. Smoke

8. Before Sunrise

9. The Celluloid Closet

10. Babe

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): Casino, Clueless, Dead Man, Get Shorty, Home for the Holidays, Muriel’s Wedding, Persuasion, Safe, Seven, To Die For

TOP 10 MOVIES OF 1994

1. Pulp Fiction

2. Hoop Dreams

3. Quiz Show

4. Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

5. Crumb

6. The Shawshank Redemption

7. Little Women

8. Nobody’s Fool

9. Bullets Over Broadway

10. Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter

Honorable Mention (alphabetical order): Ed Wood, Heavenly Creatures, Ladybird Ladybird, The Last Seduction, Little Odessa, Natural Born Killers, Queen Margot, Red Rock West, Shallow Grave, Vanya on 42nd St.

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 1993

1. The Piano

2. Fearless

3. The Remains of the Day

4. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?

5. Schindler’s List

6. In the Name of the Father

7. Farewell, My Concubine

8. Groundhog Day

9. The Nightmare Before Christmas

10. TIE: In the Line of Fire + Philadelphia

Honorable mentions (alphabetical order): The Boys of St. Vincent, The Cement Garden, The Joy Luck Club, King of the Hill, Like Water for Chocolate, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Orlando, Short Cuts, The Story of Qui Ju, What’s Love Got To Do With It?

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 1992

1. Malcolm X

2. Howards End

3. Unforgiven

4. Raise the Red Lantern

5. The Crying Game

6. Brother’s Keeper

7. Passion Fish

8. Enchanted April

9. Bob Roberts

10. Husbands & Wives

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): American Dream, Bad Lieutenant, Damage, Glengarry Glen Ross, Indochine, The Last Days of Chez Nous, Light Sleeper, The Long Day Closes, The Player, A River Runs Through It

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 1991

. The Double Life of Veronique

2. My Own Private Idaho

3. The Silence of the Lambs

4. Boyz N The Hood

5. Angel at My Table

6. Thelma & Louise

7. Jungle Fever

8. Life Is Sweet

9. Rambling Rose

10. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): The Adjuster, Beauty and the Beast, A Brief History of Time, Bugsy, Dogfight, The Hours and Times, Fried Green Tomatoes, Grand Canyon, JFK, Tout les Matins du Monde

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 1990

1. GoodFellas

2. The Grifters

3. Dances with Wolves

4. Awakenings

5. Paris Is Burning

6. Longtime Companion

7. Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

8. Wild at Heart

9. Reversal of Fortune

10. Tremors

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): Alice, Avalon, Cyrano de Bergerac, Edward Scissorhands, Longtime Companion, Metropolitan, My Father’s Glory,  My Mother’s Castle, Tongues Untied, White Palace