I’ll always have a soft spot for the 90s. It’s the decade when I grew up and started watching films. Looking back its a bridge decade. Hollywood films moved from the brash emptiness of the 80s towards smarter blockbusters, where we expected good acting and writing. There was also a revival of the more imaginative and interesting work of the 70s.

1990

	Back to the Future Part III – return to form in this sparkling Western spoof, easily the second best in the series	Director: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen
	Dances with Wolves – Best Picture winning revisionist Western epic, as a soldier finds a bond with Native Americans he never knew	Director: Kevin Costner Cast: Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, Mary McDonnell
	Goodfellas – Scorsese (and the 90’s?) high-point, as jobbing gangsters make scores an betray each other	Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
	The Hunt for Red October – Connery makes for a Scots Soviet in this superb Clancy adaptation, a personal fav	Director: John McTiernan Cast: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill
	Miller’s Crossing – one of my favourite Coen films, a fixer falls out with his gangster boss and plays all sides against the middle	Director: Coen Brothers Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden
	Misery – a novelist is kidnapped by an obsessive fan in this tension packed look at fan culture (slightly ahead of its time)	Director: Rob Reiner Cast: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth
	Pretty Woman – landmark romantic comedy as a businessman falls in love with a hooker.	Director: Garry Marshall Cast: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Ralph Bellamy
	Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead – Stoppard directs his landmark play (‘because if I don’t no one else would’)	Director: Tom Stoppard Cast: Tim Roth, Gary Oldman, Richard Dreyfuss
	The Russia House – a publisher with contacts in the USSR is roped into espionage in this solid Le Carré thriller	Director: Fred Schepisi Cast: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Klaus Maria Brandauer
	Total Recall – action satire; in a dytopian future, a man has a fantasy of being a spy on Mars: but what if its actually true?	Director: Paul Verhoeven Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone
	Wild at Heart – a released killer and his girl go on the run in this dark and irritating Lynchian film	Director: David Lynch Cast: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd

1991

	Beauty and the Beast – absolutely heart-breakingly perfect Disney musical, from when the House of Mouse was top of the world	Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise Cast: Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson, Angela Lansbury
	Bugsy – a Beatty passion project, luscious biopic of Bugsy Siegel, the gangster who started Las Vegas	Director: Barry Levinson Cast: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Ben Kingsley
	Cape Fear – a psychopathic released killer goes after the family of the lawyer who failed to get him off: OTT thriller	Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange
	The Fisher King – a fired shock-jock gets wrapped up in a homeless man’s quest for the Holy Grail	Director: Terry Gilliam Cast: Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruehl
	JFK – granddaddy of conspiracy movies, Stone’s epic (mad) fantasia on the death of Kennedy	Director: Oliver Stone Cast: Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Bacon
	The Prince of Tides – a confident sports coach conceals past trauma in this rich, romantic tear-jerker	Director: Barbra Streisand Cast: Nick Nolte, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner
	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves – much-loved Robin Hood film of my youth. Doesn’t matter where or when I always love it	Director: Kevin Reynolds Cast: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Alan Rickman
	The Silence of the Lambs – masterful Best Picture winner: a young FBI profiler recruits a serial killer to track another killer	Director: Jonathan Demme Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country – one of my all-time favs: Kirk and McCoy are framed for murder during a peace conference	Director: Nicholas Meyer Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Christoper Plummer
	Terminator 2: Judgment Day – superior sequel: a cyborg travels back in time to save the future leader of the human resistance	Director: James Cameron Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong
	Thelma and Louise – iconic feminist movie, as two women go on the run after killing a would-be rapist	Director: Ridley Scott Cast: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel

1992

	Alien 3 – not-so-good Alien film, as Ripley crashlands on a prison planet with an Alien queen growing inside her	Director: David Fincher Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S Dutton, Charles Dance
	Bram Stoker’s Dracula – overblown and camp Gothic horror, full of colours, silly accents and lots of sex	Director: Francis Ford Coppola Cast: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins
	The Crying Game – an IRA killer on the run, falls in love with a nightclub singer in this daring film with a killer twist	Director: Neil Jordan Cast: Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Miranda Richardson
	Howards End – masterful Merchant-Ivory Forster adaptation, as ownership of a house causes problems between two families	Director: James Ivory Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter
	Husbands and Wives – uncomfortably close-to-home divorce story from Allen, surely inspired by his own impending one	Director: Woody Allen Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Judy Davis, Sydney Pollack
	Malcolm X – passionate and epic biopic of Malcolm X, brilliantly made and wonderfully performed	Director: Spike Lee Cast: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall
	The Muppet Christmas Carol – my Christmas watch of choice, beautiful (and best) version of the Dickens story	Director: Jim Henson Cast: Michael Caine, Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo the Great
	The Player – vicious Hollywood satire, as a Producer kills a writer and desperately tries to get away with it	Director: Robert Altman Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg
	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me – spin-off of the TV series, Lynch reclaims it with added weirdness and darkness	Director: David Lynch Cast: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Mädchen Amick
	Unforgiven – brilliant Best Picture winning Western: a retired killer is lured back and slowly finds he can still kill	Director: Clint Eastwood Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman

1993

	Addams Family Values – much-better sequel as the kids deal with summer camp	Director: Barry Sonnenfeld Cast: Anjelica Huston, Raúl Juliá, Christine Ricci
	The Age of Innocence – James’ adaptation as a man in 1890s New York falls in love with a disgraced woman. Lush but cold	Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder
	Carlito’s Way – a criminal, out from prison, wants to go straight, but is pulled in one for one-last-job before he can	Director: Brian de Palma Cast: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller
	Farewell My Concubine – boy actors grow to men in pre-Revolutionary China. Complex, challenging, brilliant	Director: Chen Kaige Cast: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Gong Li
	The Firm – a cocksure laywer works for a big firm – and finds out its up to no good, in this not-very-good Grisham plotboiler	Director: Sydney Pollack Cast: Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Jeanne Tripplehorn
	The Fugitive – an innocent man goes on the run to prove his innocence in this superb chase thriller	Director: Andrew Davis Cast: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Jeroen Krabbé
	Groundhog Day – a misanthropic weatherman lives the same day over and over again, trapped in a small town. Great comedy	Director: Harold Ramis Cast: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott
	Jurassic Park – dinosaurs walk the earth… in a theme park. What could go wrong? Designed for the dino-loving kid in all of us	Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum
	Much Ado About Nothing – vibrant and funny Shakespeare adaptation, sun-kissed and sexy	Director: Kenneth Branagh Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington
	The Remains of the Day – a repressed butler looks back on a life of misplaced duty, in an adaptation of one of my fav novels	Director: James Ivory Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox
	Schindler’s List – heartbreaking, Best-picture winning story of the Austrian businessmen who saved thousands of Jews	Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
	Shadowlands – heartbreaking tearjerker, as CS Lewis finds love and loss very late in life	Director: Richard Attenborough Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Joseph Marzello
	Short Cuts – a number of lives intersect over a few days in Los Angeles in this epic ensemble drama	Director: Robert Altman Cast: Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Julianne Moore
	Three Colours: Blue – first of this legendary trilogy: the wife of a composer is consumed with grief by his death	Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent, Emmanuelle Riva

1994

	Clear and Present Danger – Clancy’s Jack Ryan finds himself at the centre of a War on Drugs conspiracy that goes to the top	Director: Philip Noyce Cast: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Joaquim de Almedia
	Forrest Gump – tiresome Best Picture winner about a man with learning difficulties, smug, sanctimonious and smackable	Director: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Robin Wright, Sally Field
	Four Weddings and a Funeral – a clumsy Brit falls in love with a Southern Belle in the Brit comic phenomenon	Director: Mike Newell Cast: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Simon Callow
	Interview with the Vampire – an ancient vampire talks to a journalist about his life.	Director: Neil Jordan Cast: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst
	Leon – a hitman befriends a girl whose family are killed by corrupt cops	Director: Luc Besson Cast: Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Gary Oldman
	Little Women – brilliant adaptation of Alcott, perfectly cast, wonderfully shot and leaves a tear in the eye	Director: Gillian Armstrong Cast: Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, Gabriel Byrne
	The Madness of King George – George III loses his mind, leading to a crisis in the monarchy in this superb Bennett adaptation	Director: Nicholas Hytner Cast: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Rupert Everett
	Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – overblown and try-too-hard version, operatic and overly dynamic	Director: Kenneth Branagh Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter
	Quiz Show – Redford’s best film: quiz show scandal from the 50s, when telegenic contestants were given the answers	Director: Robert Redford Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Rob Morrow, John Turturro, Paul Scofield
	The Shawshank Redemption – most popular film ever made: a man struggles to keep his spirit alive in prison	Director: Frank Darabont Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, William Sadler
	Speed – a bus can’t drop below 50mph in this brilliant, high-concept action thriller, one of the best of its kind	Director: Jan de Bont Cast: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hooper, Sandra Bullock
	Three Colours: White – a husband has everything taken from him by his cheating wife and plans revenge	Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski Cast: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos
	Three Colours: Red – final, and greatest, film in the trilogy: a student and a retired judge form an unlikely bond	Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski Cast: Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Lorit

1995

	The American President – a widowed President’s falls in love with a lobbyist, in Sorkin’s West Wing dry run	Director: Rob Reiner Cast: Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen
	Apollo 13 – superb dramatisation of the near disastrous space mission, one of the best true-life stories ever made	Director: Ron Howard Cast: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Ed Harris
	Braveheart – Best picture winning epic on the life of William Wallace, a big, silly film that works hard to look important	Director: Mel Gibson Cast: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan
	Casino – gangsters set up Las Vegas, make loads of money, but quickly turn on each other and destroy themselves	Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone
	Clueless – smart version of Emma, set among the mean girls of a high school	Director: Amy Heckerling Cast: Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Stacey Dash
	Crimson Tide – the captain and first officer of a nuclear sub disagree over an unclear message about launching missiles	Director: Tony Scott Cast: Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, George Dzundza
	Die Hard with a Vengeance – it’s Die Hard – but across the whole of New York, as Hans Gruber’s brother looks for revenge	Director: John McTiernan Cast: Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson, Jeremy Irons
	First Knight – old-fashioned, romantic retelling of the Arthurian legend that focuses on the love triangle	Director: Jerry Zucker Cast: Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond
	Heat – a samurai robber and a high-octane cop go toe-to-toe in this dramatic action thriller	Director: Michael Mann Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer
	Land and Freedom – left-wing radicals find betrayal while fighting for the cause in the Spanish Civil War	Director: Ken Loach Cast: Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Frédéric Pierrot
	Nixon – Oliver Stone makes a surprisingly sympathetic biopic on America’s most infamous President	Director: Oliver Stone Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, James Woods
	Othello – traditional version of Shakespeare, lacking in inspiration	Director: Oliver Parker Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Kenneth Branagh, Irène Jacob
	Il Postino – sentimental fable about a postman who idolises a Chilean poet in 1950s Italy. Comforting viewing	Director: Michael Radford Cast: Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
	Rob Roy – big swashbuckling, highlander struggle for justice, unfairly overshadowed by Braveheart	Director: Michael Caton Jones Cast: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth, John Hurt
	Sense and Sensibility – simply perfect Jane Austen film, one of the landmarks of classic literature adaptations	Director: Ang Lee Cast: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman
	12 Monkeys – a time-travelling criminal is sent back 40 years to 1996 to find the origins of a world-ending virus	Director: Terry Gilliam Cast: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt
	The Usual Suspects – a mismatched gang of crooks are recruited by a mysterious mastermind. But who is he?	Director: Bryan Singer Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Chazz Palminteri
	WaterWorld – a mutant mariner helps a woman and child in a water-soaked dystopian world. Legendary box office bomb.	Director: Kevin Reynolds Cast: Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn

1996

	The Crucible – wonderful adaptation of Arthur Miller’s classic play, a masterclass in re-working theatre for the screen	Director: Nicholas Hytner Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Joan Allen, Paul Scofield
	The English Patient – Best Picture winning romantic epic: a badly burned man retells his love for a married woman in 1930s	Director: Anthony Minghella Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Juliette Binoche
	Fargo – superb, blackly-comic, murderous farce about a kidnapping and blackmail plot gone wrong	Director: Coen Brothers Cast: Frances McDormand, William H Macy, Steven Buscemi
	Michael Collins – wonderfully shot biopic of the Irish terrorist leader, makes passionate points about the gun in politics	Director: Neil Jordan Cast: Liam Neeson, Julia Roberts, Alan Rickman, Aiden Quinn
	Mission: Impossible – huge fun spy action adventure, as a secret agent has to clear his name. Spawned an excellent franchise	Director: Brian de Palma Cast: Tom Cruise, Emannuelle Beart, Jon Voight
	Primal Fear – a hotshot lawyer defends a choir boy with a split personality disorder accused of murder	Director: Gregory Hoblit Cast: Richard Gere, Edward Norton, Laura Linney
	Ransom – solid thriller: a millionaire’s son is kidnapped – but he decides to turn the tables on the kidnappers	Director: Ron Howard Cast: Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Gary Sinise
	Secrets and Lies – heart-rending, emotional, but hopeful, story of a family in crisis, one of Leigh’s finest films	Director: Mike Leigh Cast: Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
	Trainspotting – iconic film about addiction: Scottish youngsters cope with drug dependence	Director: Danny Boyle Cast: Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle
	Twister – storm chasers flirt and flee from the winds in this deeply silly disaster film	Director: Jan de Bont Cast: Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt, Jami Gertz, Cary Elwes

1997

	Amistad – courtroom drama covering the dispute on ‘ownership’ of the cargo of the ship Amistad: that cargo being slaves.	Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins
	As Good As It Gets – a misanthropic writer with OCD has to make a bond with a waitress and gay artist in this sitcom set-up	Director: James L. Brooks Cast: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear
	The Boxer – a man released from prison wants to return to his dream of a boxing career – but the IRA won’t let him	Director: Jim Sheridan Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox
	Donnie Brasco – an FBI agent goes undercover with gangsters and finds his loyalties divided	Director: Mike Newell Cast: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen
	The Edge – two men, one with a photographic memory, are stranded in the Alaskan forest, hunted by a bear	Director: Lee Tamahori Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin
	Face/Off – an FBI agent and a master terrorist exchange faces and take over each other’s lives in this insane but fun actioner	Director: John Woo Cast: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen
	The Full Monty – unemployed Sheffield steelworkers decide to become strippers who go ‘the full monty’ in this Brit mega-hit	Director: Peter Cattaneo Cast: Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, Tom Wilkinson
	Good Will Hunting – a young genius is also a troubled soul in this well-written and acted tearjerker	Director: Gus van Sant Cast: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck
	Lost Highway – Lynchian oddness that defies easy explanation. Only for people who like that sort of thing	Director: David Lynch Cast: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty
	Nil by Mouth – punishingly raw and shocking marital abuse drama, at times incredibly difficult to watch	Director: Gary Oldman Cast: Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Charlie Creed-Miles
	The Peacemaker – totally routine “nuclear crisis” film, as mismatched agents hunt a missing bomb	Director: Mimi Leder Cast: George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iureş
	Speed 2: Cruise Control – terrible from start-to-finish sequel, as a cruise liner ‘speeds’ towards destruction. Everyone sinks	Director: Jan de Bont Cast: Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric, Willem Dafoe
	Starship Troopers – attractive young men and women volunteer to fight a war against space bugs. Actually a satire on fascism	Director: Paul Verhoeven Cast: Casper Van Dien, Dina Mayer, Denise Richards
	The Sweet Hereafter – after a tragic school bus accident, an ambulance chasing lawyer arrives in a small town to build a case	Director: Atom Egoyan Cast: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood
	Tomorrow Never Dies – Bond goes up against a media tycoon, planning to start a war for ratings. Brosnan on top form	Director: Roger Spottiswoode Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh
	Volcano – dreadful, predictable and very silly disaster film as a volcano erupts under LA. What are the odds?!	Director: Mick Jackson Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche
	Wilde – biopic, with a perfectly cast Fry, that sometimes feels a little uncertain on its attitudes and tone	Director: Brian Gilbert Cast: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Jennifer Ehle

1998

	Armageddon – a meteor heads to Earth – and only oil rig drillers can stop it apparently. Loudest space film ever	Director: Michael Bay Cast: Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler
	Deep Impact – a meteor heads to Earth…sound familar? This disaster film is serious rather then fun	Director: Mimi Leder Cast: Téa Leoni, Robert Duvall, Morgan Freeman
	Elizabeth – influential costume drama, that retells Tudor history as if was The Godfather, with added sex	Director: Shekhar Kapur Cast: Cate Blanchett, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush
	Enemy of the State – ahead-of-its-time surveillance thriller, as Will Smith runs from the powers of the state	Director: Tony Scott Cast: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight
	Fallen – a detective finds himself chasing after a murderer who is in fact a body possessing demon	Detective: Gregory Hoblit Cast: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland
	Life is Beautiful – a father shelters his son from the horrors of a concentration camp as Chaplin meets Schindler’s List	Director: Roberto Benigni Cast: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
	Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon – dark and daring artist biopic	Director: John Maybury Cast: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton
	The Mask of Zorro – hugely enjoyable version of the Zorro story, perfect swashbuckling entertainment	Director: Martin Campbell Cast: Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta Jones
	Primary Colors – satirical political drama about the Clinton election campaign	Director: Mike Nichols Cast: John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Adrian Lester
	The Prince of Egypt – luscious animated version of the Moses story	Director: Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells Cast: Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer
	Ronin – ex-spies are hired to steal a mysterious suitcase. I don’t care what people think, one of my favourite films	Director: John Frankenheimer Cast: Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natasha McElhone
	Saving Private Ryan – the war film that changed the whole genre, a landmark piece of film-making	Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Matt Damon
	Shakespeare in Love – Best Picture winning clever comedy, as Shakespeare falls in love with a would-be actress	Director: John Madden Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush
	The Truman Show – a man unwittingly lives in an invented world and is actually the star of a reality TV show	Director: Peter Weir Cast: Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Natasha McElhone

1999

	American Beauty – a depressed man becomes fixated on an attractive teenager. Looked like a landmark classic in 1999.	Director: Sam Mendes Cast: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Chris Cooper
	Beau Travail – a foreign legionnaire develops an irrational hatred for a new recruit in Denis’ poetic masterpiece	Director: Claire Denis Cast: Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin
	Being John Malkovich – a puppeteer finds a secret portal into John Malkovich’s brain in this iconic, oddball comedy satire	Director: Spike Jonze Cast: John Cusack, John Malkovich, Cameron Diaz
	The Cider House Rules – a young man is raised as a doctor’s protege, but leaves to find out more about the world	Director: Lasse Hallström Cast: Tobey Maguire, Michael Caine, Charlize Theron
	Croupier – a would-be writer returns to his first passion: taking people’s money in this slow-burn, compelling crime drama	Director: Mike Hodges Cast: Clive Owen, Alex Kingston, Gina McKee
	Deep Blue Sea – Scientists try to cure Alzheimer’s by breeding hyper intelligent sharks. What could go wrong?	Director: Renny Harlin Cast: Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson
	Election – a teenager is determined to win a high school election at all costs. Her teacher is just as determined to stop her	Director: Alexander Payne Cast: Matthew Broderick, Reece Witherspoon
	The End of the Affair – solid Greene adaptation, as a man can’t understand why his relationship with a married women ended	Director: Neil Jordan Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea
	Fight Club – dark satire about the founding of a cult, a little too pleased with itself but still electric	Director: David Fincher Cast: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter
	The General’s Daughter – dreadful army drama about an investigation into a raped and murdered soldier	Director: Simon West Cast: John Travolta, Madeline Stowe, James Cromwell
	The Green Mile – Stephen King adaptation: a gentle black man on death row has amazing powers to heal. Can his life be saved?	Director: Frank Darabont Cast: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse
	An Ideal Husband – semi-decent Wilde adaptation	Director: Oliver Parker Cast: Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett
	Magnolia – lives intersect over a few days in LA in this Altman tribute	Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Cast: John C Reilly, Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore
	The Matrix – iconic sci-fi action, as an office drone discovers the world is not what it seems	Director: The Wachowskis Cast: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne
	The Mummy – huge-fun, old-fashioned adventure as archaeologists accidentally bring to a life a terrible mummy	Director: Stephen Somers Cast: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah
	Sleepy Hollow – a detective is called into investigate supernatural beheadings in a small town	Director: Tim Burton Cast: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Christopher Walken
	Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace – long-awaited Star Wars prequel, possibly the most disappointing film of all time	Director: George Lucas Cast: Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman
	The Talented Mr Ripley – a closeted man envies and loves his rich friend so much he murders him and takes his identity	Director: Anthony Minghella Cast: Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow
	Topsy-Turvy – brilliant Gilbert and Sullivan biopic, also a wonderful celebration of the power and magic of theatre	Director: Mike Leigh Cast: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Timothy Spall
	The Winslow Boy – handsome, faithful Rattigan adaptation as a father works for justice for his son	Director: David Mamet Cast: Nigel Hawthorne, Jeremy Northam, Rebecca Pidgeon
	The World is Not Enough – Bond gets involved in mysterious threats to a pipeline – but who can he trust?	Director: Michael Apted Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle