Boogie Nights (1997)įrankly, it's nearly tied with the underrated Magnolia for us, but we're selecting this iconic, hilarious, sad and punchy depiction of 1970s California porn-making as Paul Thomas Anderson's finest of the 1990s. What do we do? What do we do? Watch it through 'til the very end, of course! 20. Pop quiz, hotshot: we're scrolling through TV channels and Speed is on. A critical and commercial smash with modest beginnings, Speed sees legends operating at peak power. Jan de Bont's red-blooded yet witty and buoyant popcorn thrill ride about a terrorist plot on a bus put Sandra Bullock on the map, cementing Keanu Reevesas action royalty, Dennis Hopper as a master of unnerving screen villainy. Robin Williamswon a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for an indelible turn as a grieving psychotherapist. Good Will Hunting struck a chord with audiences worldwide, grossing about 20 times its budget. The duo’s Oscar-winning screenplay centers on a mathematics genius grappling with mental health issues, a lady love and small-town trappings. Hilarious, romantic and moving, Good Will Hunting launched the careers of Matt Damonand Ben Affleckinto the stratosphere. The “live-action” though not really live-action remake received mixed reviews (Uncanny Valley alert!), and is currently the highest-grossing animated film of all time. With no shortage of catchy tunes, memorable anthropomorphized characters, humor and drama, this Africa-set loose adaptation of Hamlet was one of the most financially successful films of the ’90s, for good reason. It’s the kind of scary that stays with you for days, maybe forever.

By the end of it, you’ll just want to cover yourself with a blanket, perhaps paralyzed with fear. No visual effect in a movie will ever be as scary as what we can create in our heads with our imaginations. The Blair Witch Project (1999)īefore the parodies, and long before the found footage genre was run into the ground, Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick‘s micro-budgeted The Blair Witch Project, an innovative work of wondrous and horrid imagination, was one of the most frightening motion pictures of all time. The future Ant-Man also starred in the less-fondly remembered Halloween 6 the same year. Did you think we’d forget to include one of the best high-school movies of all time? As if! Amy Heckerling‘s observant, delightful take on Jane Austen‘s Emma made Alicia Silverstone a superstar, and launched the career of Paul Rudd.

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