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

Published: Nov 21, 2012 11:41 am

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5. L.A. Confidential (1997) (Dir. Curtis Hanson)

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Even James Ellroy, novelist of L.A. Confidential, has admitted to the greatness of Curtis Hanson’s marvel of an adaptation. Tight, beautifully shot, twisty and perfectly encapsulating the time period of its setting, L.A. Confidential is jammed packed with great performances from Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce and Kevin Spacey and a noir-inclined storyline that will baffle you brain until you can piece it all together. The script is dynamite, the shoot-out sequences are bloody and expertly shot, and the film never falls off its horse in its attempts to tell a complicated and somewhat windy story. Assured and gorgeous, Curtis Hanson has never made a better film.

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