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My Favorite Films from Every Year I’ve Been Alive (Part Three: 1990–1999)
It was a very good decade
When I reached the 1990s on my favorite albums series, I said that it was a weird decade. The same cannot be said regarding movies; the 1990s were so chock full of great films that picking my favorite for each year has been, at some points, nearly impossible. Even using the “desert island” method to break ties wasn’t always sufficient, especially through the middle part of the decade.
But I started this insanity (and dragged poor Eric Pierce and Simon Dillon into it as well), so I can’t stop now. It’s been an eye-opening experience in at least one respect, which you’ll see with the very first year of the decade.
I probably don’t need to say this again, but I will: this is a list of my favorite films for each year of the 1990s. Sometimes the pick will also be the one I consider the greatest from that year, but just as often it won’t. And some surprised even me.
Enough prologue; let’s get to the films.
1990: Goodfellas. Martin Scorsese’s gangster classic had no real competition for this slot; my honorable mention, Dances With Wolves, was a good movie but doesn’t even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence. Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Ray Liotta set the standard by which…
