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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) film poster

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) Review

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is one of the darkest films Disney has ever released and one of the most thematically ambitious animated features in the studi. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise directed.

Fargo (1996) film poster

Fargo (1996) Review

Fargo is one of the best American films of the 1990s and one of the most distinctive achievements in the Coen Brothers filmography. The two cowrote the screenplay.

Beauty and the Beast (1991) film poster

Beauty and the Beast (1991) Review

Beauty and the Beast is one of the great Disney animated films and the first animated feature ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise directed.

Baby's Day Out (1994) film poster

Baby’s Day Out (1994) Review

Baby's Day Out is one of the more interesting commercial failures in 1990s American family cinema. Patrick Read Johnson directed.

Apollo 13 (1995) film poster

Apollo 13 (1995) Review

The film rewards repeat viewing because the substance is procedural instead of dramatic in the conventional sense. The film is adapted from Lost Moon, the 1994 memoir by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.

Antz (1998) film poster

Antz (1998) Review

DreamWorks Animation had been established in 1994 by Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg, and David Geffen as substantial competitor to the Walt Disney Company and to Pixar. Both productions handled comparable insect colony source material.

A Bug's Life (1998) film poster

A Bug’s Life (1998) Review

The 1998 production represented his second feature directorial work and the broader Pixar studio's continued development as substantial animated production company. Flik is an ant inventor whose inventions consistently fail and damage the broader colony operations.

10 Things I Hate About You (1999) film poster

10 Things I Hate About You (1999) Review

The film adapts Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew to contemporary American high school setting. Cameron James, a new student at Padua High School, develops romantic interest in Bianca Stratford.

Unforgiven (1992) film poster

Unforgiven (1992) Review

Clint Eastwood's foundational revisionist Western. Won four Academy Awards including Best Picture.

Goodfellas (1990) film poster

Goodfellas (1990) Review

Liotta, De Niro, Pesci, Bracco. Seen it twice across multiple decades.

Heat (1995) film poster

Heat (1995) Review

Heat is the best of the best. De Niro, Pacino, Kilmer, Voight.

Sleepless in Seattle (1993) film poster

Sleepless in Seattle (1993) Review

Nora Ephron's foundational early-1990s romantic comedy. An Affair to Remember homage.