Tombstone (1993) Review
Tombstone (1993) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The credited writer was fired a month into shooting, the credited director may not have directed it, and the result is the most quotable Western ever made. Val Kilmer…
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1990sThelma & Louise (1991) Review
Thelma & Louise (1991) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Callie Khouri wrote it in six months as her first screenplay and took the Academy Award for it. Two women leave for a fishing weekend and never…
1990sSe7en (1995) Review
Se7en (1995) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The rain never stops, the city has no name, and the killer wins exactly as planned. Fincher's second film, made after a first one he has disowned.
1990sThe Big Lebowski (1998) Review
The Big Lebowski (1998) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A Raymond Chandler plot handed to a man with no interest in solving it. Failed on release, found its people later, and now has a festival and…
1990sThe Usual Suspects (1995) Review
The Usual Suspects (1995) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A confession improvised from the noticeboard behind the detective's head. The twist survives knowing it, which is the only test that matters.
1990sSpeed 2: Cruise Control (1997) Review
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The sequel that removed the one thing making the original work. A cruise ship cannot go fast, and the whole premise was speed.
1990sOut to Sea (1997) Review
Out to Sea (1997) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Lemmon and Matthau as dance hosts on a cruise ship, in the last decent film the pair made together. Slight, warm, and carried entirely by forty years…
1990sTitanic (1997) Review
Titanic (1997) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Cameron built the ship at ninety percent scale, sank it, and hung the oldest story in the world off the side of it. The door problem is real. The…
1990sCronos (1993)
Guillermo del Toro reroutes the vampire myth through a clockwork device in his startling 1993 debut. The fascination with antique machinery.
1990sFrom Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
The tonal whiplash is the entire experience. From Dusk Till Dawn earns its 7 by being two completely different movies stapled together, and by the strange fact that the staple holds.
1990sNadja (1994)
Nadja earns its 6.5 as a singular artifact of nineties downtown independent cinema, a black-and-white art-house vampire film that filters the Dracula. Michael Almereyda made it cheaply in 1994 with Hollywood backing from David Lynch, who also appears in a…
1990sInnocent Blood (1992)
John Landis fuses the vampire film with the mob movie in a fun, tonally chaotic horror comedy. The film's premise is its strongest asset.