Best movies of 1990s

Days of Thunder(1990)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A young hot-shot stock car driver gets his chance to compete at the top level.



Darkman(1990)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A brilliant scientist left for dead returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive.



The Grifters(1990)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend--both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.



Point Break(1991)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

An FBI agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.



The Doors(1991)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 59

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.



Delicatessen(1991)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants.



A Bronx Tale(1993)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A father becomes worried when a local gangster befriends his son in the Bronx in the 1960s.



Menace II Society(1993)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.



True Lies(1994)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.



Waterworld(1995)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 57

In a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land.



Crimson Tide(1995)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny, to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles, before confirming his orders to do so.



The Bridges of Madison County(1995)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson, for four days in the 1960s.



The Nutty Professor(1996)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Grossly overweight yet good-hearted professor Sherman Klump takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love.



The Devil's Advocate(1997)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 57

An exceptionally adept Florida lawyer is offered a job to work in New York City for a high-end law firm with a high-end boss - the biggest opportunity of his career to date.



Amistad(1997)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 60

In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.



The Wedding Singer(1998)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Robbie, a singer, and Julia, a waitress, are both engaged, but to the wrong people. Fortune intervenes to help them discover each other.



The Negotiator(1998)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

In a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, a skilled police negotiator accused of corruption and murder takes hostages in a government office to gain the time he needs to find the truth.



Buffalo '66(1998)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 62

After being released from prison, Billy is set to visit his parents with his wife, whom he does not actually have. This provokes Billy to act out, as he kidnaps a girl and forces her to act as his wife for the visit.



Primary Colors(1998)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for president of the USA.



Wild Wild West(1999)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 57

The two best hired guns in the West must save President Grant from the clutches of a nineteenth-century inventor-villain.




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