Garçon Means Boy: The 10 Best Films Of The Nineties

Join us in our decade-based film retrospective, as we delve backwards all the way from 2009 to 1910. Most decade-based best movie lists grant you a whooping 50-100 entries, which makes perfect sense given all the years you have to take into consideration. But what if you were defining a decade in just ten films? Which movies would you recommend to somebody who might only watch a handful from a given decade? This week, join us as we look back at the Nineties.

T.J. Barnard Nov 21, 2012 11:41 am2014-05-11T22:46:49-05:00

9. The Matrix (1999) (Dir. Lana & Andy Wachowski)

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In a fashion that would come to define 90s cinema, the Wachowski siblings brought in a whole array of personal influences when it came to crafting their visually groundbreaking masterpiece – everything from Japanese anime, cyberpunk novels and martial arts made its way into their melting pot. The result is something both intellectually sound and superbly entertaining, a sci-fi film that hit the zeitgeist at just the right time. Most will remember The Matrix now as a source ripe for parody (what with its slow-mo bullet time sequences and unsubtle soundtrack cues), but it’s important to remember that The Matrix is also one of the most plainly enjoyable films in the entire sci-fi movie canon.

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