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

3. Goodfellas (1990) (Dir. Martin Scorsese)

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For Goodfellas, American auteur Martin Scorsese brings together an entire career’s worth of technique, innovation and personal touch to create a perfectly-rendered tapestry chronicling one man’s life in the Mob. Henry Hill (played by Ray Liotta) narrates his own rise and fall with just the right amount of smug charisma. With effortless grace, the picture moves forwards without ever seeming to slow down or hit a bump in the road, combining music, performance, camerawork and story into one fluid whole. Many young filmmakers have attempted to imitate Scorsese’s natural flair for moving his camera about the scene, but nobody has ever managed what its director makes look so easy in Goodfellas.

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