The 1990s was the decade indie sensibility crashed into the mainstream, with Miramax at its peak and a new generation of directors rewriting what popular cinema could look and sound like. Pulp Fiction arguably split the decade in two, but there was plenty happening before and after it, from prestige drama to grunge-era thriller. Browse Macca's reviews from the era below.
Rating: 3.0★
The legend of Robin Hood has been retold so many times, in so many formats, that every new version carries the weight of all the ones before it. By the time Kevin Reynolds brought his take to cinemas in the summer of 1991, audiences had already seen Errol Flynn swing
Rating: 3.0★
On the 5th of November 1975, a group of forestry workers drove back into Snowflake, Arizona, with a story that the local sheriff and a fair portion of the American public found very hard to swallow. They claimed that their colleague, Travis Walton, had been struck by a beam of
Rating: 3.0★
Victor Hugo's 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris (better known in English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame) has had no shortage of screen adaptations, from the silent Lon Chaney version of 1923 through to the brooding 1939 Charles Laughton picture. By the time Disney came to the
Genre War
Lessons of Darkness (1992)
Genre Documentary
Shinjuku Boys (1995)
Genre Documentary
★ — Blue (1993)
Genre Comedy
★½ — Cemetery Man (1994)
Genre Animation
★★★ — Anastasia (1997)
Genre Drama
★★★★ — Good Will Hunting (1997)
Genre Action
★½ — Street Fighter (1994)
Genre Animation
★★½ — The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)
Genre Fantasy
★★½ — Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)
Film images and data courtesy of TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
The best new reviews, a buried gem with where to watch it, and where the every-country challenge is up to. Free, no spam.
Subscribe free