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★
There's a moment watching The Adopted Son when the black and white photography gives way to colour, and it hits you like stepping out of a darkened room into afternoon sunlight. It's a small thing, technically speaking, but it tells you everything about what Aktan Arym
Rating: 3.0★
There's something quietly disarming about a film that knows exactly what it is. Bye Bye Blue Bird, directed by Katrin Ottarsdóttir, is a low-budget Faroese road movie about two women returning home after seven years away and finding that home no longer quite fits. It's
Rating: 3.0★
My fiancée absolutely loves this film. It sits near the very top of her all-time favourites list, and so I went into it with a certain amount of pressure to feel the same way. I didn't, quite, but I can absolutely see what she sees in it,
Rating: 2.0★
There's a version of Anaconda that works. A giant snake, a panicked crew trapped on a river boat in the Amazon, a scenery-chewing villain, and a cast you'd never expect to share a screen together. That's a recipe for a genuinely enjoyable B-
Rating: 1.0★
Sometimes you watch a film not because you want to, but because it's the only one available. That's the uncomfortable truth sitting at the heart of my experience with Dhanmalhi. For most international viewers, this 1993 Maldivian production directed by Reeko Moosa Manik isn't
Rating: 1.5★
There's a moment in Funny Games where one of the two young men tormenting a terrified family turns to the camera, looks you dead in the eye, and smirks. It's technically accomplished. It's also one of the most insufferable things I've ever
Rating: 4.0★
What does it mean to want to be seen? That's the question humming underneath every frame of Salaam Cinema, and it's one I haven't been able to shake since watching it. Mohsen Makhmalbaf turns a simple premise, open auditions for a film in Tehran,
Rating: 3.0★
Let's be honest: Kevin Costner doing a Midwestern accent in medieval England shouldn't work. And it doesn't, really. But here's the thing about Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. It doesn't need to work perfectly to be a genuinely good time.
Rating: 3.0★
There's one sequence in Fire in the Sky that I genuinely cannot shake, and I've been turning it over in my head ever since the credits rolled. You'll know it when you see it. Extended, clinical, suffocating. It treats the alien abduction not as
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment in "Topsy Turvy" where the animation just explodes off the screen: crowds swirling, colours colliding, the whole frame crackling with a kind of joyful, controlled chaos. It's one of the most technically dazzling sequences Disney has ever produced, and it'
Genre War
Lessons of Darkness (1992)
Genre Documentary
Shinjuku Boys (1995)
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