1993 Top Ten List

Naked (Mike Leigh)

Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (François Girard)

Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)

The Remains of the Day (James Ivory)

Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)

King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh)

Malice (Harold Becker)

The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick)

What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallström)

Additional 1993 Films By Rating

Short Cuts (Robert Altman)

The War Room (Chris Hegedus & D A Pennebaker)

The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk (Cory Yuen)

Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh)

Clean, Shaven (Lodge H. Kerrigan)

The Fugitive (Andrew Davis)

Sommersby (Jon Amiel)

Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)

The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)

Fearless (Peter Weir)

Fiorile (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)

Hard Target (John Woo)

Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)

Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)

Searching for Bobby Fischer (Steven Zaillian)

Sopyonje (Im Kwon-taek)

The Thief and the Cobbler (Richard Williams)

Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige)

Demolition Man (Marco Brambilla)

The Piano (Jane Campion)

First Love (Lee Myung-se)

Addams Family Values (Barry Sonnenfeld)

True Romance (Tony Scott)

Tombstone (George P. Cosmatos)

A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)

Wittgenstein (Derek Jarman)

The Baby of Mâcon (Peter Greenaway)

Totally F***ed Up (Gregg Araki)

Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron)

Untamed Heart (Tony Bill)

Kalifornia (Dominic Sena)

Last Action Hero (John McTiernan)

The Rebellion (Michael Haneke)

Menace II Society (The Hughes Brothers)

What's Love Got to Do With It (Brian Gibson)

Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

Robin Hood: Men in Tights (Mel Brooks)

Valley of Abraham (Manoel de Oliveira)

Body Snatchers (Abel Ferrara)

Hélas pour moi (Jean-Luc Godard)

When a Stranger Calls Back (Fred Walton)

Point of No Return (John Badham)

Mrs. Doubtfire (Chris Columbus)

For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.

Ratings are on a needlessly precise 100-point scale.

Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are marked with if I currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit them and they get a numeral. (Lists from prior to about 1988 are especially suspect, as I compiled them long ago from memories that were in many cases already pretty dusty.)

Seen but currently unrated (and not presumptively among my top 10): The Adventures of Huck Finn (Sommers); The Advocate (Megahey); Alive (Marshall); Arizona Dream (Kusturica); Bad Behavior (Blair); The Ballad of Little Jo (Greenwald); Benny & Joon (Chechik); Blue (Jarman); The Blue Kite (Tian); Breakable (Yamaguchi); A Bronx Tale (De Niro); Calendar (Egoyan); Caro diario (Moretti); City Unplugged (Järvilaturi); Cliffhanger (Harlin); Cool Runnings (Turteltaub); Dave (Reitman); Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (Cohen); Dreaming of Rita (Lindström); Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Van Sant); Falling Down (Schumacher); The Firm (Pollack); Flesh and Bone (Kloves); Free Willy (Wincer); Germinal (Berri); Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (Dunham); Hot Shots! Part Deux (Abrahams); I Don't Want to Talk About It (Bemberg); In the Line of Fire (Petersen); In the Name of the Father (Sheridan); The Joy Luck Club (Wang); Kaspar Hauser (Sehr); Latcho Drom (Gatlif); Lost in Yonkers (Coolidge); M. Butterfly (Cronenberg); Ma saison préférée (Téchiné); Mad Dog and Glory (McNaughton); Madadayo (Kurosawa); The Man by the Shore (Peck); The Man Without a Face (Gibson); Manhattan Murder Mystery (Allen); Matinee (Dante); Mr. Wonderful (Minghella); The Music of Chance (Haas); My Life and Times With Antonin Artaud (Mordillat); A New Life (Assayas); The November Men (Williams); Philadelphia (Demme); The Puppetmaster (Hou); Raining Stones (Loach); Red Rock West (Dahl); Road Scholar (Weisberg); Romeo Is Bleeding (Medak); Ruby in Paradise (Nunez); Rudy (Anspaugh); The Scent of Green Papaya (Tran); The Secret Garden (Holland); Shadowlands (Attenborough); Sirens (Duigan); Six Degrees of Separation (Schepisi); The Slingshot (Sandgren); Smoking/No Smoking (Resnais); The Snapper (Frears); Son of the Shark (Merlet); The Summer House (Hussein); Suture (McGehee & Siegel); This Boy's Life (Caton-Jones); To the Starry Island (Park); The Tree, the Mayor and the Méldiathèque (Rohmer); The Vanishing (Sluizer); Wayne's World 2 (Surjik); The Wedding Banquet (Lee); The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (Müller)

As yet unseen: Green Snake (Tsui); The Heroic Trio (To); Iron Monkey (Yuen); Kika (Almodóvar)

I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.