Overlooked ’90s Movies That Should Have Been Bigger

Here is a fear that I have. People who want to watch old movies take their cues from Google — and Google increasingly seems to recommend a smaller and smaller batch of films. You Google “ 90s movies ” and you will see the same titles over and over as you scroll: Clueless , The Truman Show , Scream , 10 Things I Hate About You , Forrest Gump , Goodfellas , Toy Story. (These are not hypothetical examples; those are literally the movies Google gave me this morning.)

Those are very good movies for the most part. A movie lover interested in ’90s cinema should see those titles. But what movie lover interested in ’90s cinema hasn’t already seen them anyway? The further the past recedes, the more an enormous collection of old films gets whittled down to just the sma