Cardigans, cargo pants and bucket hats.

What an era it was for unfortunate fashion trends.

Takedown, but the concept clearly had a hold on the filmmaker.

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The film is a monument to the complicated legacy of an important figure in the civil rights movement.

Sometimes they just need to exist as beautiful testaments to craft and execution.

The tale of tortured artist Jack Skellington rediscovering his zest for life (death?)

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It’s an exquisite fantasy ofan underserved medium that prioritizes artistic ownership over mere content creation.

Hopefully,that long-discussed sequelnever happens so the original’s can remained untouched.

An inarguable masterpiece,Princess MononokewasMiyazaki’s grandest statement of environmental conservation.

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It’san essential film for everyone involved, and a masterpiece of 90s cinema.

His first film of the 90s was the critically disappointing(though rewatchable)Hook.

Then Spielberg had possiblythe best year any director has ever had.

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Spielberg’sdeeply personal chronicle of the Holocaust and Oskar Schindleris affecting without falling into cheap emotional manipulation or exploitation.

It’san immensely rewatchable and inspiring drama.

Demme uses visual perspectives to emphasizethe sexual politics enforced against Starling as a female member of a male-dominated profession.

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Even with those issues,The Silence of the Lambsisan undeniably well-crafted thriller that has few equivalents.

Malcolm (Washington) sitting and contemplating alone in Malcolm X

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Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas

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John Travolta’s Vince and Samuel L. Jackson’s Jules looking intently ahead in ‘Pulp Fiction’

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A little girl in a red coat walking alone in Schindler’s List

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Andy, played by actor Tim Robbins, and Red, played by actor Morgan Freeman, stand together in a prison yard in The Shawshank Redemption.

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Clarice Starling stands up to the glass as she speaks to Hannibal Lecter in a prison facility.

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Gene Hackman as Little Bill, looking serious outside Greely’s Beer Gardens in Unforgiven

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