In the year 1990, there were many very memorable gangster films and numerous equally good modern re-tellings of Shakespearian plays; 'Men of Respect', a weird, silly adaptation of Macbeth, was neither of those.
'Moonrise Kingdom', which arrived 10 years ago this week, is arguably Wes Anderson's most underrated and different film amongst his storied pantheon of movies. Charming, low-stakes, and very funny.
20 years ago this week, David Lynch released what many consider to be his magnum opus. 'Mulholland Dr.' embodies everything people love about that baffling Lynchian formula.
A lot of the Coens brothers' movies are dark, and a lot of them are violent, but none are as downright bleak as 'No Country for Old Men' - arguably the best film in their steep catalog.
'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid' was a troubled revisionist Western that featured a stellar cast and infamous supporting performance from one Bob Dylan.
Initially a flop when it first released, 'Rounders' became a foundational text during the poker craze of the early aughts.
The 1990s were the days of high-concept movies, and what higher concept is there than The American President?
Released 10 years ago, 'The Dark Knight Rises' might not be as highly regarded as its 2008 predecessor, but its still a very good superhero film and easily better than every one that followed.
'The Hidden' arrived three years before the arrival of 'Twin Peaks,' but it's a movie that should naturally appeal to fans of that particular show. For one, it's got Kyle MacLachlan, playing an FBI agent with an unorthodox style.
'The Rising,' Bruce Springsteen's 12th studio album and his first with the E Street Band in 18 years, takes up a fascinating place in Springsteen's history and is widely remembered as his "9/11 album."
'There's Something About Mary' was one of the biggest hit comedies of the 1990s, and it's famous for a few things, including the start of the Ben Stiller's run as a leading man.
There was once a time, albeit brief, when Steven Seagal was actually both cool and a plausible movie star; with the best of his run being 1992's 'Under Siege.'
George Clooney has been a movie star for 25 years now, but the best movie he's ever been a part of — 'Michael Clayton' — is one from 2007 that was a flop at the time of its release.
'Morning Glory'. which was released 10 years ago last week, is a TV news comedy that has a lot of charms and grapples with the loss of the soul of the news business.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of some great movies from 1972, and while 'Night of the Lepus' (a horror pseudo-Western about giant bunnies attacking) isn't a great film by any stretch, it is a great oddity.
Despite being a major flop upon release, Steven Soderbergh's 'Out of Sight' still stands as one of the best crime films of the 1990s and features the best on-screen performances from George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez.
Though it paints Alan Dershowitz as a hero, 'Reversal of Fortune' was a fascinating "true story" legal procedural that examined both loveless blue blood marriages, and of the conundrum of lawyers defending a client who very well may be guilty.
'Ski Patrol' was released 30 years ago last month and while it's considerably dated in many ways, it remains a screamingly funny movie - granted you love physical gags and nutshots.
10 years ago last week saw the release of 'The Artist', a throwback film released 80 years after the end of the silent era that dominated the awards season, but has now all but disappeared from the public conscious.
John Grisham's novel "The Firm" was a massive hit in 1991, and its movie adaptation was not only the best Grisham adaptation, but the best lawyer movie of the entire decade; featuring a stellar cast led by a young Tom Cruise.
Released 50 years ago, Robert Altman's 'The Long Goodbye' represents one of the most fascinating and miraculous films of the 1970s, starring an Elliott Gould in his prime.
10 years ago Aaron Sorkin brought the origin story of Facebook to the big screens, and looking back it, the film deserves credit for being one of the early ones to get a good handle on the more rotten nature of Zuckerberg, years before most.
'Three Men and a Baby' was a massive hit when it came out which featured one of the greatest apartment sets in the history of movies and spawned an urban legend about a ghost boy.
'Unforgiven', Clint Eastwood's classic Western from 1992, is seen as a crowing achievement in Eastwood's career, and not only because it won Best Picture and three other Oscars.