An Indiewire panel composed of Anne Thompson, David Ehrlich, Kate Erbland and Eric Kohn has decided that Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut” was the best film of the ‘90s.
Their top ten, in order: “Eyes Wide Shut”, “Close-Up”, “Schindler’s List”, “Beau Travail”, “Hoop Dreams”, “Goodfellas”, “After Life”, “Titanic”, “The Long Day Closes” and “Safe”.
Honestly, not a bad list and I love how Kubrick’s final film tops it. It wouldn’t top mine, but I instantly fell for “Eyes Wide Shut” when I saw it back in the summer of 1999. “Eyes Wide Shut” was initially released to mixed reviews, but it seems as though Kubrick’s last opus has gained some notoriety over the last 25 years.
My personal list — (1) Pulp Fiction (2) Goodfellas (3) Schindler’s List (4) Unforgiven (5) Breaking the Waves (6) Magnolia (7) The Thin Red Line (8) Groundhog Day (9) Blue (10) Naked
Back in May of 2020, we polled 175 critics, asking them for their best films of the 1990s, the results were as follows: (1) Goodfellas (2) Pulp Fiction (3) The Silence of the Lambs (4) Fargo (5) Eyes Wide Shut (6) Chungking Express (7) Magnolia (8) Boogie Nights (9) Close-Up (10) The Thin Red Line